I can’t pay for college?
Blake A Asked: I can’t pay for college?
I'm a student with nearly a 4.0 (450 kids in my class btw), bunches of AP and honors classes, four varsity sports and captain on a couple of them, and I love being the trumpet section leader at my school's band. However, I'm a bit depressed, because despite all of this hard work, I can't afford college at all, and I want to become a doctor.
1.) My parents have $0 for my college education.
2.) My family has terrible, terrible credit. My mom could never pay back a Parent Plus loan. I highly doubt I'll get a private loan. I have no cosigner.
3.) I've applied to many schools, and the cheapest one (with the exception of a local CC) will leave me with $19,000 in student loans per year. I got an amazing scholarship to a very expensive private school, but that brings the cost back down to a public university.
4) Commuting isn't an option. No place to park a third car, and road expenses would be nearly the same as room and board.
Besides going to a CC, what are my options? CC credit is a joke and medical schools don't like that. I'd do ANYTHING before going to a CC. I dread taking out private loans. I'm so hungry to learn, and I'm scared to think that I'll have to set back something as important as college for possibly many years.
*Before you begin a response with the traditional "Fill out the FAFSA", all of my FAFSA options have been exhausted. I didn't get a pell grant either. My house has five people in it with a gross income of $60,000. However, my dad is a truck driver and a HUGE sum of his salary goes to road expenses. We live on about $40,000.
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