Financial Aid - TERRIBLE idea?

sblake7
Fri, 01 May 2009 02:33:03 +0000

Did you fill out the FAFSA? Were you offered any grants or loans? Subsidized or unsubsidized?

If I understand correctly, you’d need to take out about 30K in loans, total, in order to get your Bachelor’s degree. That’s a lot, but it’s not unreasonable, particularly for an older student who saved by going to community college, and particularly if some of the loans are subsidized.

Are you living at home? If so, can you work summers, and part time during school, to offset some of that debt? And if you’re not living at home, why do you care what your mother says?