<p>@jasosa:
i can relate to your situation. I am so sorry that you did not get it. there will be a new chapter. do not give up hope.</p>
<p>@jasosa</p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear your news, but do not lose hope in furthering your education. You seem like a very hardworking, considerate and kind person and I am sure that God will reward you in another way. Don’t forget that everything happens for a reason, you have many more blessings to come. Best wishes to you</p>
<p>@ jasosa: With almost 30 college credit hours, start at a community college. A lot of community colleges have in-house scholarship dbases. Financial aid goes a long way at a community college. This gives you time to continue applying for scholarships to major universities. What state are you in?</p>
<p>You still don’t understand in a competitive field like finance its essential that I go to Texas AM to be able to have a career one day. Unless I get 14000k I won’t be able to attend anywhere. Why is life so unfair my entire life I have never complained or whined or made excuses for my problems but as of right now I just don’t know what to do. Most would think that I could just get loans but nobody would be willing to co sign for me.</p>
<p>Jasosa: No one has to co-sign for most federal loans. Have you spoken directly to the financial aid officers at Texas A&M about your family’s need? I thought Texas A&M met the full need of students of families with limited income:
“The Aggie Assurance helps students with a family income of less than $60,000. All eligible students receive scholarships and grants to cover the cost of tuition. Many of the students eligible for free tuition also receive other scholarships and grants to help cover the cost of required fees, housing, book,s and other educational expenses. The total cost for in-state students is $20,723 per year ($36,113 for out-of-state students).”</p>
<p>@jasosa - I’m so sorry for your your desperate situation. I was a Junior in college and had some rough life circumstances thrown my way unexpectedly that made me think I wasn’t going to graduate and God worked it out even though it meant me having to take a year off and move back to my home state before I could complete my education. I would highly suggest community college. And see if you can go meet with the financial aid office at the school you want to attend. Just because the school sent you a financial aid award letter that states that you are going to get X amount of dollars (which may not be enough for you to attend your chosen college), doesn’t mean that that’s the final decision. You and/or your mom can go to the financial aid office, explain your situation (and have all your mom’s tax forms, etc. to prove your case). Ask them if there are any additional scholarships or grants that you might be eligible for. Tell them how much you want to attend their school. It may work and it may not. But my daughter’s friend’s mom went to a school at Univ of Tulsa and did the same thing and the university then put her son’s name into consideration for an additional scholarship to help him financially attend.</p>
<p>Another thought is to tough it out for a year at community college and make straight A’s and involve yourself in community activities to bolster your resume. Take the time to apply for every scholarship you can. Then separate yourself financially from your mom and see if you can perhaps even be declared independant as a student and perhaps that will put you in a better place for eligibility. But ask someone at the financial aid office what is best because I can’t imagine that with only $14,000 a year to support a family of 4 that you would be in a better situation by becoming independant. But perhaps schools look at situations differently.</p>
<p>Get a mentor or an English teacher to review your essays. Allow them to give you pointers so that when you apply for future scholarships, you will know how to write a powerful essay in case that might have been a potential weakness.</p>
<p>Do not lose hope. I know it is difficult, but God works on his time and not ours. Please don’t lose hope for your future. Everyone that has read your post on this forum believes in you, prays for you and will be rooting for you and that a door will be opened to your dreams too.</p>
<p>I appreciate your words but its useless I have tried all of my options. After all grants and loans I’m still short 5k of the almost 21k coa. I have tried every alternative it’s utterly useless, my next option would be to beg. Next week I believe is when enrollment commitments are due, idk what to do. I bet some of the scholars on here have both parents who make decent money, put they just want to attend some 50k+/yr university while ppl like me struggle to go to a cheap public school.
What disappoints me about this whole situation is that for the rest of my life ill be mocked by my mom while she rubs it in that I didn’t make it. All of my friends are going to texas am and I don’t know how to break it to my friend that I won’t be dorming with him anymore.
I guess that’s why they say reality is hard.</p>
<p>@MomfromOklahoma Thank you and congratulations to you and your daughter as well!Also great words of advice and encouragement for jasosa.</p>
<p>@jasosa: I’m sorry as this may seem harsh. I’ve been reading this forum and praying that my son’s fate will be his 1st pick college. You’re right that his 1st pick is a private school which we are still 10K short for. When he chose this school I told him that we could not help him and that if he wanted to go there he had to prove it by applying for scholarships to close the gap and possibly groveling to the financial aid office, but he also needed a back up plan which in his case is a state school near home.</p>
<p>Scholarship = private school with individual attention
No Scholarship = state school near home</p>
<p>Regardless of the outcome, he was going to school. Now here is the crossroads you are at. Do you crumble under the pressure of not being able to be with your peers or do you persevere and meet you goal regardless of how unconventional it may be?</p>
<p>Here is another tid bit of advice: I work in HR - if a position requires a degree, I don’t care what color paper that degree is on. I just care that a degree was achieved.</p>
<p>Do your 60 hours at a community college and transfer to a university that offers online classes at a flat rate of $450/class. This way your financial aid goes further. I started classes 18 years ago and just now finished my associates, so yes it is possible. The question is do you really want it bad enough???</p>
<p>Are you a Texas native?<br>
<a href=“http://www.alamo.edu/spc/online-degrees-certificates/[/url]”>http://www.alamo.edu/spc/online-degrees-certificates/</a>
<a href=“http://degree.tamuc.edu/Programs/1014/bachelor-science-business-administration[/url]”>http://degree.tamuc.edu/Programs/1014/bachelor-science-business-administration</a></p>
<p>Still no letter. In northeastern Oklahoma.</p>
<p>@sciman i know they send out emails because my nominator/recommender received an email right after I did for my finalist notification.</p>
<p>My son is a Hispanic Scholar from the big town of Sinton,Texas! Praise the Lord! My dad always said that God never abandons you and will always provide. Without all the prayers that have been lifted up on my son’s behalf, I don’t think this would have been possible.</p>
<p>Is anyone on here going to the University of Penn?</p>
<p>Still no letter/package in San Antonio, TX. For those of you who have received it, did it say when they were emailing us?</p>
<p>@Caesar14</p>
<p>You should probably check your email now, I just received it.</p>
<p>still no email here, not sure about the snail mail yet.</p>
<p>Email received in Los Angeles at 1:00 PM today…</p>
<p>just got the email. bad news. signing off.</p>
<p>@camocf123 - We just our received letter yesterday afternoon. But we are in Oklahoma City. It probably will take longer for you to get your mail in a smaller city that’s not in a more metropolitan area. Keep us posted. The Okies are rooting for you!</p>
<p>Hello everyone, </p>
<p>I have a sad story. Yesterday one of my students received the “I’m sorry” rejection letter. An hour ago, I (as his nominator) received an email stating that he had been selected as a GMSP scholar. I was so excited for him. Called immediately and., . … .</p>
<p>the email to me was a mistake =(</p>
<p>Just a warning out there for anyone whose recommender/nominator receives the same.</p>