Hello all, I am a 20 year old college student living in Ohio and am attending a private, 4 year university. My first two years of college have been almost completely loan free due to my grades and family financial situation. However, yesterday I learned that all financial aid from federal or university grants are gone due to my parents financial situation in 2016.
During the year 2016, my Dad's father died. In his inheritance, my Dad received over a hundred thousand dollars (I believe in the form of a pension? unclear on this one). My understanding as of now is that over the course of a year this money was blown (in large part by my Mom). It has been made unclear to me where this money actually went. My assumption currently is credit card debt, terrible spending habits, and medical bills is where it is gone. Regardless, there is nothing left of it today. However, this of course is not known when applying for FAFSA and henceforth is it now assumed my parents can afford to make up a large sum of tuition. My new financial aid package for this year has gone from a max of 1-3 thousand dollars in loans or private scholarships to reach full coverage of my yearly tuition to 11 thousand of my 30 thousand dollar a year tuition being the only aspect covered by merit-based grants and scholarships.
My question at this point is what I can currently do outside of apply for more scholarships. I have been living at home and lack my own personal funds to make up the 12 thousand dollars left after my financial aid package (which does include a 7,500 dollar unsubsidized federal loan). I am planning on apply for as many scholarships and grants as I possibly can, but am unsure how much I can plan on receiving this quick (college junior, political science/history major, 3.86 GPA).
Submitted May 16, 2018 at 11:36AM by throwawayJOKER17 https://ift.tt/2L56Pgv
