<p>finding any good supporting documentation(s)?</p>
<p>The the closest documentation I can find is my parents. Last semester, my parents would for most part, call me over to go help them with buy and loading furnitures so they can import them to Mexico and make extra money to support the whole family, which consumed up a lot of my homework and study time. Even then, a letter from a family member would sound like more of a poor excuse for them, unless they stepped into mine and my family’s shoes. I wrote an appeal because I dropped 3 out of 5 classes when I only wanted to drop 2 of the classes. Instead, one of my professors decided to withdraw me from his class after his exam without even addressing me and now, I’m stuck with this problem of being suspended from the use of financial aid until I do better this semester and not drop any classes. </p>
<p>Should I just go up to financial aid and just be straight forward and tell them that I don’t have a good enough supporting documentation for them?</p>
<p>I don’t think your main issue is documentation. You put your family’s needs/desires above your educational needs, ’ and while that may have been the right thing or the necessary thing to do at the time, it suggests that college wasn’t your priority. So you need to be able to convince the people who review your appeal that college is now your first priority and that from now on you won’t put helping your family’s business above your education. Can you demonstrate that another family member or an employee will take on this work so you aren’t pulled away from your studies in the future? Your task is less convincing anyone that the events of the past actually occurred, and more that they won’t recur. That has to be the gist of your appeal. </p>
<p>Think about it…if you cancel your appeal, none of your financial aid will be reinstated. You are better to at least submit what you have rather than giving up. Were there any other people who knew of your situation besides immediate family members? (ex. Clergyman, counselor, academic advisor?). 3rd party documentation is always helpful. If you are unable to obtain a statement from a 3rd party, at least submit letters from your family. Yes, your appeal might get denied - but don’t just give up so quickly.</p>
<p>@kgos16: Probably my professor from last semester but I don’t think there’s any way for me to get a letter from him. Even worst, my parents, foreign immigrants, still have difficulty picking up the English language so it’d be hard for me to get a good letter from them as well. Does it even matter if I have them write in Spanish?</p>
<p>I don’t understand what your problem is. You are losing financial aid because you dropped your classes? You are giving as a reason, the facts that you had to help them . Do you know a minister or anyone in the community that can write a letter to the school saying that you help your famiily out a lot? Yes, by all means, have your parents write the letter. Or write one for them in spanish for them to sign and translate it for the fin aid officers. </p>
<p>Give it a try anyways. However, you can’t keep doing this. Even if you get a by this time, you keep this up, and you’ll lose your fin aid. When you are getting money to go to school, you have to do your job or you lose it and the money. Same when you find a paying job. You’ll get fired for a reason like what you are giving.</p>