I applied to other schools (before I knew I wouldn’t be able to qualify for any financial aid) including Fordham, NYU, Baylor and Tulane. My dream was always to go to college in NYC, which is why I was so excited when I got the 29,000k scholarship from St John’s. Unfortunately, because of the high costs it looks like NYC is out of the picture. Now I just have to see if I can even go to college at all this year! Haha. Filling out the FAFSA was quite a rude awakening for me.
Other schools have offered me scholarships as well. University of Hartford in a Connecticut offered me 24k, University of Bridgeport 22k, and St John’s 29k (I was so excited to hear about St. John’s until I realized the cost of attendance is much higher than 29k 
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LSU offered me 3,550. The TOPS honors scholarship for living in Louisiana will cover 3,844. That still lives a lot left over for me to pay with no money to pay it with…
My mother is Filipino, and I’m not saying all Asian families are like this (and they probably aren’t, but I think some are to a degree) but my parents definitely think it is the child’s responsibility to pay for college. The expected family contribution is $19,653 a year according to the FAFSA.
Thank you for suggesting those universities. I will definitely look into them and apply. I just want to be able to go to college. For the longest time I thought I was going to go to NYU and live in a dorm in the city and intern in the city and it’s insane how wrong I was. Reality came crashing down on me very hard!!!