<p>background: attended local state college and transferring to city college to transfer to a higher institution</p>
<p>I have the choice of either living with my mom & sister or a fraternity of a local state school I don’t attend anymore for next year. I hate interacting with my family and I love the complex we live in, but my social life would really suffer. I know a few friends in the fraternity, and their house is actually a leased motel with individual rooms for the brothers (and potentially me). It would allow me to keep in touch with the friends I made at the state college that is nearby, but I have to live with some people that I’d rather not see on a regular basis. However my social live would be popping since I’m living at a fraternity. </p>
<p>I also get FAFSA so I’d get x money if I stayed with my parents, or x+y money that I would get living off campus. I am attending a city college next year and the distances are fairly equal from both locations. I know fraternity is the obvious choice here but I’m sort of prefer living safe which thinking about it is not a good thing at this part of my life…</p>
<p>I’d live at the fraternity. You can probably avoid people that you don’t like. Plus, it sounds like you’ll be bored at home if you don’t have a social life.</p>
<p>you get financial aid which is based on your FAFSA.</p>
<p>Financial aid takes many forms. What form(s) of financial aid will you be receiving? All grants? Grants and loans? all loans? Remember, those loans have to be paid back. Also, what will be the expenses associated with either choice? Transportation costs? Meals? Social life? And where does this $$ come from? Is it worth more in loans? </p>
<p>And remember academics–where will it be most conducive to your academic success? Do you study well at home? Will living with the fraternity give you people to study with, or will the fraternity life style get in the way of the books?</p>
<p>Only you can decide what will work best for you. FWIW, my sons all chose to live away from home, and two joined fraternities. It was a better choice for one, not optimal for the other.</p>