Choosing Community College Instead

DadTwoGirls
Tue, 14 May 2024 18:00:47 +0000

One friend of a daughter was in a similar financial situation, although it was due to a combination of a divorce plus her father’s small business struggling. She was one of the stronger students in her high school, but could not afford to attend university. I think that the way that they calculate need based aid with divorced parents and a small business was not in her favor.

She instead went to a local community college for two years. She did very well, and transferred to an in-state public university with a merit based scholarship that fully covered tuition and fees. She was able to live at her father’s home the entire time and needed to pay for only books and a few incidentals and her car (which was needed to get from her father’s home to the university). I happened to run into her at a store near my home about one month before she graduated university – with nearly straight A’s, a very marketable major, and very little in debt. She was doing very well.

I am confident that her father was very proud of her.