Search for Affordable Schools

TTG
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:34:21 +0000

First, I admire your hard work and ambition.

Now, here’s an idea that may or may not work–work colleges. For example, Berea College is a work college and a terrific LAC with terrific students. There is not tuition; students do have a work commitment though, which I’m guessing you’d be perfectly willing to take on.

What I don’t know is how the school evaluates a student like yourself–one who will show a middle-class income on FAFSA but without parental financial support. It is really intended to provide an education to students without financial means, particularly those from Appalachia. So I don’t know how they would treat your application, since you would have means, at least on paper, but you could check with the school. And, are you from a part of OH that would be considered Appalachia? Again, I would be very happy for my own to attend school there, and with Berea students.

Note that applicants have to interview, and you need to get everything arranged by the application deadline, which is early, so it would be one to learn about soon, if it sounds appealing. Here are links to Berea and the College of the Ozarks and the"work colleges" website as well.

http://www.berea.edu/about/quick-facts/

http://www.workcolleges.org/about/meet-work-colleges

https://www.cofo.edu

Good luck!