Financially Planning for College (a.k.a crushing dreams)
To get a decent paying job in the United States, college is a requirement. However, a quality education that would lead to a higher paying job isn’t always affordable to students across the country. I myself am facing the same daunting question of ‘how do I pay for college’. College loans are a crippling factor when it comes to financially planning the rest of one’s life. Many are finding it difficult to repay their debt. So the trick is for upcoming college students to find a way to gain a solid college education without paying for most of it. The three colleges I am thinking of attending all offer various financial aid and land me in different financial situations after college. My grandfather has done me a wondrous advantage and has been saving for me to attend college since I was very young. There is limited …show more content…
If tuition gets covered, the expenses could potentially turn into issues of day to day living and traveling home. If I choose to go out of state somewhere, it could become an issue to travel home without purchasing a car of my own or a plane ticket. The other pieces is without the Daniel’s Scholarship to make up for the differences, my out of state options may prove to be obsolete. However, I don’t have all the financial information yet from all of my college options. My mother won’t be able to fill out the FAFSA until around February. Without that, colleges are unable to put together an accurate financial package for me. Looking at these numbers has made me realize how expensive college really is and how much money I could potentially end up owing in loans. However, I have also discovered that I can’t make definitive statements about by college choices until much later in this game we play. Until I have to be faithful that God will pull everything together for
To get a decent paying job in the United States, college is a requirement. However, a quality education that would lead to a higher paying job isn’t always affordable to students across the country. I myself am facing the same daunting question of ‘how do I pay for college’. College loans are a crippling factor when it comes to financially planning the rest of one’s life. Many are finding it difficult to repay their debt. So the trick is for upcoming college students to find a way to gain a solid college education without paying for most of it. The three colleges I am thinking of attending all offer various financial aid and land me in different financial situations after college. My grandfather has done me a wondrous advantage and has been saving for me to attend college since I was very young. There is limited …show more content…
If tuition gets covered, the expenses could potentially turn into issues of day to day living and traveling home. If I choose to go out of state somewhere, it could become an issue to travel home without purchasing a car of my own or a plane ticket. The other pieces is without the Daniel’s Scholarship to make up for the differences, my out of state options may prove to be obsolete. However, I don’t have all the financial information yet from all of my college options. My mother won’t be able to fill out the FAFSA until around February. Without that, colleges are unable to put together an accurate financial package for me. Looking at these numbers has made me realize how expensive college really is and how much money I could potentially end up owing in loans. However, I have also discovered that I can’t make definitive statements about by college choices until much later in this game we play. Until I have to be faithful that God will pull everything together for