I believe one of the biggest challenges that I’ll face in college is paying for college. Paying for college is the cloud that’s been hanging above my head ever since my junior year. My family consist of my younger brother and sister--my sister heads off to college in one year, my mother and myself. My family only has one source of income: my mother’s teacher salary. It’s a difficult predicament to work around but we make the most of it. Part of the reason that I push myself so hard in school is because I know that good grades, leadership positions and community service gets students the scholarships needed to pay for the hefty price of college. Grants and loans are only a portion of topics covered in AVID and AVID does an amazing job informing
