Top school vs cheap school vs dads pick

happymomof1
Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:46:30 +0000

TStuart95 -

The Pell Grants in your packages indicate that your dad and stepmother don’t have a lot of money to be helping you pay for your education with. Staying on their good side long enough to have them file the FAFSA every year is something that you should try to do.

All of the packages have full federal loans and Pell grants. Slippery Rock is offering $2000 in federal work study, so what you need to pay is the $3000 + $2000 = $5000. Temple right now is offering only $1000 in federal work study so what you need to pay there is $8000 + $1000 = $9000. If Temple comes up with the scholarship that you are hoping for, Temple and Slippery Rock will be the same price. Until that happens, Slippery Rock is the closest thing to affordable for you.

The important thing to know about federal work study, is that you do have to find that job on campus, and you do have to work and earn that money. At some universities it is easy to find a work study job. At others it isn’t, and students end up being unable to earn the amount of money that they had been originally promised.