college educations = impossible to pay for :(

rayxcappo
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:12:19 +0000

i really want to attend boston university. i love the town and i know it is the one university i really want to be at. but what bums me out is that i know i can’t afford it because i am responsible for paying for my own education. i applied for the full-tuition trustee scholarship, but i know that my chances of receiving it are slim and that i shouldn’t bank on it. but i believe that i have a decent chance at receiving the school’s half-tuition scholarship, but it would still cost me 25,000 dollars (including room, board, and mandatory fees) to attend bu if i received it. i only want to borrow at max 5,000 dollars per year. thus, i will have to pony up 20,000 dollars per year.

my question is how can i do this? i understand that i can receive a substantial amount of money through need-based financial aid. but even if i get 10,000 dollars per year, which is a generous estimate, i still would need 10,000 dollars per year. should i start applying ubiquitously for external scholarships? or will receiving external scholarships affect the amount of aid i receive from bu? and what scholarship programs give great amounts of money? i have used fastweb.com to search for them but i can’t not find many that give more than 4,000 dollars.

anyways, thank you for reading this. i appreciate it :).

p.s. my stats are available here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=16150