Financial aid package at Seton Hall University

cptofthehouse
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:47:17 +0000

Here’s the hard reality: You are an adult and your parents are not responsible for you any more. They do not have to house you, feed you, permit you to do anything with anything of theirs. The legal cord is cut. However, their finances are still used to determine how much financial aid you can get from college. It’s an unfair, stupid system and I wish it would be challenged, but at the moment that is the way it is.

If it is really unbearable for you to continue the way things are going, look for some alternatives in terms of living arrangements. With full time + work over the summer, you should be able to find a room share in a college area somewhere for pretty cheap , Look for full time work, yeah, you are still going to barely be able to afford it, but that is truly the way it is in life for most people. You then go to school part time and see what kind of aid you can get that way, but you go to a cc, a local school.

Be aware that the average college student in this country is in his/her 20s, goes part time and works at least part time, often ful time and gets through college, if s/he does, little by little over a long, long period of time. That you have the luxury, and yes, it is a luxury of having a place to sleep and some amenities and can go full time at a private school, puts you at the top of the heap in terms of privileges. Yeah, it does get better too.

My kid got all 4 years paid and still gets hand outs and help out of college, but gets bitter when he sees a lot of his friends, many from well to families living in very nice places, even with low paying jobs, supplemented by family money whereas he is pounding salt barely getting by. One doesn’t have to look far to see those better off than you are. When you are hammering, all you see is the head of a nail. But talking ito anyone who deals with young adults in transition as you are, trying to get independent, most have it a lot worse

Look into the military and other programs that may give you some structure and support , though think long and hard about what you have to give in return. You don’t get something for nothing, not even from family, as you are finding out, and they are usually the most generous.