<p>Parents paid house cash, own a few cars, with $200k cash in bank. I am a 4.0 college student, and recently moved. The nearby college, the cheapest one I might add that has my program, will cost 27k in fees in total for nursing degree after any and all aid deductions. They wont allow it and prefer a 400 square foot condo that will eat all the winnings by the beach instead. Oh yea, they pretty much won the lottery. I am also the only person EVER in my family to go to college. Are they right or wrong? Thank you.</p>
<p>If you enlist in the military or marry, you will be elligible for financial aid. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Well, if you are a 4.0 student, can’t you find schools where you will get merit aid? I mean, I personally choose to pay for my kids’ education, but it’s not mandatory. I know it’s a bit of a challenge, but a lot of kids on here do manage to do this through strategic applications at schools with automatic merit aid. Go to the financial aid forum and ask about it, and you will get a lot of help from experienced posters.</p>
<p>I understand you feel betrayed, but if you are intelligent enough to get straight A’s, then you are intelligent enough to know that you have to find a solution to the problem other than just being indignant.</p>
<p>Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if any of us, including you, think they are right or wrong, it just is what it is. It’s their money.</p>
<p>If you read my post in full, you will see that I said that is with aide and all…</p>
<p>Right, which means you need to find a different option. Maybe start at a community college and apply to different schools? </p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter what you think your parents “should” do, it’s their money, and you are going to have to figure out another way to do what you want.</p>
<p>the place you will get the most help with this is on the financial aid forum.</p>
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<p>Does this mean that you were a student at another college, and left it to move with your parents? How many semesters to you have left to go before getting a degree? Were they paying anything for that college? Can you at least get that same amount from them?</p>
<p>I was a student at a community college, but moved to a town that is richy richy. I am about 2 hours away from the college I was attending, and the out of district rates run about 700$ per credit hour, for community college, that is ridiculous, they do not accept out of district students for nursing anyways. The option that I presented is the cheapest that is in district, but there is nothing I can do. They are good parents, but they just want a beach house. I was a terrible student in highschool, depressed, they always encouraged me if I could get my act together they would send me to anyplace I could get in. I turned everything around in my last year of high school and have kept at it.</p>
<p>Did you finish your AA at the community college? If not, is there one you can finish up at now before looking to move to a 4 year school?</p>
<p>I do not know what you mean by "in district’ and “out of district”. Are you in the US?</p>
<p>Community colleges charge different rates to local residents. It is similar to a school district and if you are coming from out of district, you pay more.</p>
<p>Okay… so is the OP saying there are no CCs in her district now? Or that she has finished her AA, and needs to move to a 4 year college to finish that degree?</p>
<p>For financial aid purposes, you need to wait until you are 24, married, or a military veteran to become independent of your parents’ income. If your parents are high income but do not wish to contribute, you need to wait until then to go to a college that would otherwise be too expensive (net after merit scholarships, which tend to be less available for transfer students).</p>
<p>For what it is worth, the OP appears to be a male, based on an offensive reference in post #7.</p>
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stereotyping but most likely true.</p>
<p>It’s you parent’s money so they don’t have to pay for anything. There are many colleges with merit aid that will allow you go there for very little to nothing. The military will also pay for your college as long as you under 23</p>
<p>Get a job near your old CC, and move there. Talk with the administration, and find out how long you have to live on your own to qualify for the local rates. CCs often are more generous about that than the 4-year institutions are. Even if you can’t qualify for that rate, you should be able to cover part time fees. See the financial aid office there about federal loans. Those will help with the tuition.</p>
<p>Nationwide, most students are working and attending college part time. Most are paying almost all if it themselves. If you find that that is howyou have to do it, you will be in good company.</p>
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harsh atleast he’s trying to turn his life around. Just because he’s not a standard CC doesn’t mean he can’t succeed.</p>
<p>I know vals that went to CC because they couldn’t afford a university. Maybe because his parents didn’t pay for school he had to go to CC. You don’t know that</p>
<p>This concept is totally foreign to me. Where I’m from, there’s a community college with multiple campuses in three different counties, let alone different districts. And the university has two campuses as well. Where my parents live, there’s only one public college system, with multiple CC and universities that charge the same rates regardless of where in the state you live, assuming you’re in-state. How is there not another community college you can transfer to? Two districts aren’t different states, provinces, or countries, so I can’t imagine how there would not be any other options. Why can’t you just get a job and move back to the district you lived in. If you already went there and qualified for the tuition rates you were receiving, you wouldn’t have to tell them you don’t still live with your parents.</p>
<p>It wasn’t sterotyping. The OP had made a(n offensive) reference to a(his) male body part that has since been removed. Not important, just wanted folks who were referring to OP as “she/her” to know.</p>
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<p>I have (to date) taken coursework at two Ivy and Ivy-peer institutions, two community colleges, two non-Ivy universities, and one non-Ivy LAC. I had outrageously difficult classes at all of those places. Yes, including those CCs. Your statement that “a 4.0 isn’t anything special at a CC” is simply not true.</p>
<p>I also don’t know where you get the notion that a nursing program is not “rigorous”. Nursing clearly is different from whatever it is that you are studying (or plan to study), but so are many other fields of study that are different from yours. Nursing is a fabulous choice for a student whose family has limited resources (as the OPs family did before winning the lottery), and who needs to be in the workplace quickly. Often the employer will pay for continuing education which means that a community college LPN program can be upgraded to a BSN or MSN or MS in Hospital Administration all on someone else’s dime. Not bad at all.</p>
<p>wallrus75 said: “Now you want to go to nursing, which isn’t considered as rigorous as a 4-year college program”</p>
<p>Wow, I hope the nurses that will inevitably take care of you someday don’t read that.</p>
<p>And calling the student poster immature whilst disparaging an entire profession . . . definitely leading by example :-)</p>