My Mother's Trying to Make My Decision! HELP!

Alchemy
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:30:03 +0000

Basically my mom doesn’t want me to attend Macalester because UMich offered me a large scholarship and lots of grants. But right now Macalester is less expensive than UMich thanks to its very generous aid. My mom says she’ll try and get a better job and that my grants will plummet when she does so I shouldn’t go there. But I love Macalester so much. You can’t imagine how much I love the school–but I don’t want too many loans. It’s just not fair! Why is she doing this? I don’t WANT to go to UMich. I wish I hadn’t even applied. Why would she do that?

Should I base my decision on what may happen? She probably WON’T find a much better job. And even if she did it wouldn’t matter. If she doubled her income next year it would STILL be below $70,000 and she, my brother, and I would all be in college. My aid wouldn’t be that bad would it?

What should I do? I tried talking to her about it, but she just said that she’s going to try to make as much money as she can without regards to my or my brother’s aid or her lively hood. She just doesn’t care. I don’t even know why she needs to much money. Her income is mostly focused on making her, and her alone live most comfortably. Only my brother, grandfather, and I feel the effects of being working-class. Does she need to make so much money? She can live comfortably with twice her income or less.

I feel so selfish. I haven’t approached her yet, really. I only discussed then when she told me not to go to Macalester.

Why is she doing this? I worked my ass off poor and in a ghetto school(which she kept me in, by denying me the chance to attend one of the cities only decent public schools) to finally get into a nice place and she wants to take it away and send me elsewhere! UMich isn’t a bad choice, and maybe I’m being spoiled(I know I am) but God damn it, I want to enjoy at least four years. I think I deserve it more than most people.