<p>ok so im a teen mom im 17 ill be graduating in june ive come along way my daughter will be one when i do. so heres the thing i want to go to college but im not sure what and how many colleges alllow you to go to school and have a daycare. so any teen moms can help me that would be amazing</p>
<p>wow, you’re younger than I am, and I don’t think I’ll have a kid for the next 20 years. :P</p>
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This article describes a great program at Nebraska’s College of St. Mary
[The</a> Changing Face of Women’s Colleges - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/03/11/the-changing-face-of-womens-colleges.html]The”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/03/11/the-changing-face-of-womens-colleges.html)</p>
<p>More generally speaking, can you go to school close to home, where you have a reliable child care provider? If not, all colleges allow parents to attend, but as a general rule, smaller colleges have less available for on-site child care. Look at larger colleges and colleges like Cleveland State, where there are a lot of resident students (dorms full of freshmen), but also a lot of working students and part time students. Colleges like these are likely to have good on site child care for their students [Child</a> Development Center - Cleveland State University](<a href=“http://www.csuohio.edu/services/childcare/rates/]Child”>http://www.csuohio.edu/services/childcare/rates/)</p>
<p>I am not a teen mom, but I am a mom, too! 
Welcome Maddies Mommy, and I hope you will find the resources you need. Again, Welcome to CC!!!</p>
<p>Wilson College in PA has a single parent program. I think that one of the SUNY schools (Buffalo?) may have one. Also, St. Paul’s in VA. Good luck!</p>
<p>your older then me but acting younger then me… stuff happen</p>
<p>What area of the country are you looking at for college, maddiesmommy?</p>
<p>it doesnt really matter im willing to take me and my daughter anywhere</p>
<p>Here’s my two cents worth. If you have a current support system in place e.g. parents, current babysitters, good friends that help you, I would go to your local community college and start there. They should have either the resources or the community connections you will need for support. The cost at a CC is also significantly lower and should be financially feasible. That will give you a couple years of getting used to being a full time mother and student, will give you two years to settle on a major and give you two years to figure out if there is a part of the country where you might want to go. Your daughter will also be two years older. You are younger right now than many, many college freshman so there will be kids your own age in the community college either in dual enrollment with their high schools or staying closer to home until they, too, are alittle older. That’s my 2 cents.</p>
<p>I agree - going to college is hard and being a mom is hard. If you have family and friends near by and you can start out by going to college close to home, it will be a little bit easier for you.</p>
<p>How are your grades and scores, much will depend on that. Will you need full financial aid? What do you want to study and where do you live now?</p>
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<p>I agree! College is very expensive and if you have to pay for babysitting, too, that might become impossible. </p>
<p>Are your parents going to pay for your college and the babysitting needs? If not, how are you going to pay for your college and living expenses? </p>
<p>Also, if you stay near your parents, you’ll have “in home” babysitters when you need to do homework or study.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>The Wilson College program looks great. It offers year-round residential housing for single mothers pursuing a bachelor’s degree full-time. The one problem you might have is that the children must be 20 months or older.</p>
<p>There are good suggestions here but we definitely need more facts:</p>
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<li>intended field of study</li>
<li>financial aid needs</li>
<li>where are you geographically</li>
<li>what’s your child support situation</li>
<li>does the father have visitation rights/will he seek them if you move far away</li>
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<p>I admire your commitment to education and your family. While I understand your willingness to go anywhere, there may be factors that have an impact on that - that’s why you got that question. There are some smart, well-informed people here and they can help so I suggest posting a little more information.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I’d hate to see a young single mom taking out a bunch of student loans to “go away” to school. Rarely can such a mom afford to pay back such loans. Once she’s out of school, she’ll likely only be earning barely enough to support herself and her child - not enough for loan repayment.</p>
<p>I think she should live at home and go to a local school to minimize costs.</p>
<p>I agree it is very hard to raise a child, it is very hard to go to school-
combining the two without extensive experience/resources both financial and emotional is not possible to do in a healthy fashion-
wasn’t able to do it when I was 25 & married for very long at a time at least.</p>
<p>Community colleges often have child care on site, and some have excellent parent supports programs as well.</p>
<p>^^^
emerald is right.</p>
<p>It is very hard to go to college…it is very hard to raise a child. Doing both at the same time is hard even when there are 2 parents in the home. Doing both well as a single teen mom would be nearly impossible to do without a support system in place - such as - living at home, having grandparents and/or your siblings help with evening babysitting while you study, having the full financial support of your parents.</p>
<p>Also, are you going to need to work (at least part-time) to provide an income? If so, that means your child will be some kind of daycare for nearly all of her waking hours. It would be better if some of that time was spent with a loving relative - such as a grandma.</p>
<p>What are your parents saying about this? Will they be financially supporing your and your daughter; will they be paying for your tuition, rent, food, child care, medical bills, car, etc?</p>
<p>A friend of mine had a daughter in the same situation.</p>
<p>She wound up at our Community College because it was:</p>
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<li> Affordable & had a daycare</li>
<li> Had enough “non-traditional” students that the advising was able to help her in all aspects of life (from how to obtain health care for her son; study habits while parenting a toddler; help to complete the financial aid forms).</li>
<li>A program with auto-enroll in a Bachelor Program if she maintained a minimum GPA.</li>
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<p>Being a mother is difficult.
Being a single mother is more difficult.
Being a student is difficult.</p>
<p>IMO, it can ALL be done successfully if you find a school with a support system and you are determined.</p>
<p>if you do end up going to a community college, or if you end up wanting to transfer, you should consider the Ada Comstock program at Smith–it’s only for people who have 2 years worth of credits, but it allows you to take a lighter courseload and there’s family housing. Whether you’re a good candidate will depend a lot on your grades from wherever you start out.</p>
<p>I admire you for taking on the challenges of raising your daughter and going to college at the same time. I hope it goes well. Good luck. =]</p>