<p>I am planning on studying at Parsons New School of Design in Fall next year.</p>
<p>As we all know, the cost of attendance and tuition fee are sooooo expensive. </p>
<p>I am planning on applying for student loans but on the website, they actually encourage applicants to exhaust all our efforts first applying for grants and free money because the debt you will have when you graduate will be of course overwhelming.</p>
<p>So yea, I have been scouring the web for information. I signed up for fastweb and i check on Parsons website for their list of scholarship entities. But i dunno, It just seems soooo overwhelming to me.</p>
<p>I work full time now. I only have 1 hour lunch break to call these scholarship entities and they are only open during the weekdays and I work on those days too, thats why its hard for me to get a hold of them. I just one to take a full week off and research and call them. plus, i just got here in the US. ive been here for like 1 year. and its just so overwhelming.</p>
<p>huhuhu. i dont want to give up on this though. Im scared too. huhu</p>
<p>Do you guys have any tips so that i can be more organized with my scholarship and grants search. Also do you know any scholarships that is worth applying for or scholarships for fashion/art school students?</p>
<p>You cannot borrow $57K/year. The most you can borrow is $5500 (that’s if you are a US citizen). Will your family pay for this? If not you should look at alternatives.</p>
<p>Well, maybe it’s time to come up with a new plan - one that you can afford!</p>
<p>Scholarships will NOT cover your cost of attendance at Parsons. The overwhelming majority of scholarships are for the first year of study ONLY . . . so even if you get all possible scholarships and your first year is completely paid, you will still have no way to pay for your subsequent years of study.</p>
<p>I hate to say it, but even though this is the “land of opportunity,” that doesn’t mean that everyone gets to go to their dream school. What you need to do is figure out how much you can actually afford, and then find a school that fits within your budget. And if there aren’t any schools that you can afford, then you need to keep working for a couple of years, and save your money until you can afford to go to school.</p>
<p>Trying to go to school first, and pay for it later, is a very risky endeavor, particularly in a creative field such as design. Your potential earnings are just too uncertain.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but there’s just no easy solution.</p>
<p>WOW :C huhuhu. But how about Discover? They say on their website, they could cover 100% of your tuition fees, that includes cost of attendance and even housing. Is that worth it? :C</p>
<p>Really? mmm. It just saddens me :C I hope I can find a way for this. I really wanna go to school there. I wish I could. I dunno. I don’t want to keep on delaying and end up regretting the things i didnt do while I was younger but thats another story. I really wanna go to this school. Theres this scholarship that I am applying and Im really hoping I will win it so that I can get my full tuition covered. Im keeping my fingers crossed. I just feel so lost right now at 22. :C</p>
<p>because i dont know much about it. I need an interaction with a live person so that I could ask my questions and get answer straight from the source. I am not applying for scholarships over the phone. I am calling them to get more information. :)</p>
<p>Other threads suggest that it takes more than 5 yrs to graduate from Parsons.
You might want to consider that when investigating its affordability.</p>
<p>Discover is NOT going to lend you money without a qualified co-signer…and that person has to RE-QUALIFY each year…and that’s a bigger problem…the person can’t requalify after a year or two…so the student has to drop out of school and pay off huge debt.</p>
<p>Your plan is a plan to failure. Even if thru some horrible-luck you got a qualified co-signer, you’d end up with a ridiculous amount of debt.</p>
<p>Do you have any idea of how low your pay would be once you graduate??? You won’t have the income to make the payments on big loans. You may not even have the income to pay back Stafford loans if you have to live in a pricey high-fashion area of the country.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids i really want to go into fashion career. I want to go to Parsons because they have this foundation year that would help me decide what my major would be.</p>
<p>Did you ever want something in life sooo much it hurts and makes you cry? :C</p>
<p>I live in Tallahassee, Florida and there is nothing here. :C Our community college does not have anything remotely related to Fashion. Theres FSU but they only have Retail Merchandising which is not really Fashion Design. :C I initially wanted to go to FSU when I thought it was my only option but then for some reason, I came across a website and I saw Parsons and just opened my eyes to a new perspective. There is this scholarship that they have right now. I am applying for it. I hope I win. It could cover up to 100% of tuition. Im really hoping. :C</p>
<p>If you are now 22, soon you will be an independent student (age 24). If you move to NY now, get a job there and establish residency, you would qualify for in-state tuition. I am unclear of the details of the NY State residency rules (ie. If you are under 24 and your parents live in FL, but you live in NY, can you establish residency separate from your parents place of domicile?. </p>
<p>Even being an OOS student at F.I.T would be less expensive than being a student at Parsons. </p>
i will definitely consider every word here.</p>