1. I completed and submitted a FAFSA for the current academic year.
Yes, I completed this year's FAFSA.
2. Describe any personal or family circumstances affecting your need for financial assistance.
One thing that majorly affects my financial need is that my family is not supporting me in any way. I have a job working on campus and I am looking into getting another job to pay for the loans that I was forced to take out. Getting this scholarship would truly take part of a large burden off of my shoulders. I went through four years of rigorous work in IB in order to get accepted into the college that I wanted to and get scholarships, however, the scholarships have not been coming in as I had hoped. I have taken out a large government loan …show more content…
There were many times where I thought I was going to drop out, where I wanted to give up because the stress was too much. But I continued on, I continued despite the crippling depression I fell into in tenth grade, I continued despite the difficult and numerous assignments we were given. I did this so that I could prove not only to myself but my family, that circumstance doesn’t have to determine your future. I grew up poor, my mother was a single parent working a full-time job without a college degree while raising three children. As such, she wasn’t home very often, and when she was, things weren’t that great. My sister and brother fought with her a lot and that drove a wedge between them. They did everything they could to escape the situation that they grew up in, eventually turning to drugs. After I watched my sister go through it I knew I needed to continue with my schooling, I wanted to be better. But, after I watched my brother go through it, I watched his change, I knew I needed to take myself as far away from the drugs as possible. So, I joined IB. I continued with my school work trying my hardest to get good grades and pass. When I walked across the stage to get my diploma I felt four years of hard work pay off; four years of community service, of action and creativity, of IA’s and EA’s and EE’s and TOK essays and countless hours of studying. I was
Yes, I completed this year's FAFSA.
2. Describe any personal or family circumstances affecting your need for financial assistance.
One thing that majorly affects my financial need is that my family is not supporting me in any way. I have a job working on campus and I am looking into getting another job to pay for the loans that I was forced to take out. Getting this scholarship would truly take part of a large burden off of my shoulders. I went through four years of rigorous work in IB in order to get accepted into the college that I wanted to and get scholarships, however, the scholarships have not been coming in as I had hoped. I have taken out a large government loan …show more content…
There were many times where I thought I was going to drop out, where I wanted to give up because the stress was too much. But I continued on, I continued despite the crippling depression I fell into in tenth grade, I continued despite the difficult and numerous assignments we were given. I did this so that I could prove not only to myself but my family, that circumstance doesn’t have to determine your future. I grew up poor, my mother was a single parent working a full-time job without a college degree while raising three children. As such, she wasn’t home very often, and when she was, things weren’t that great. My sister and brother fought with her a lot and that drove a wedge between them. They did everything they could to escape the situation that they grew up in, eventually turning to drugs. After I watched my sister go through it I knew I needed to continue with my schooling, I wanted to be better. But, after I watched my brother go through it, I watched his change, I knew I needed to take myself as far away from the drugs as possible. So, I joined IB. I continued with my school work trying my hardest to get good grades and pass. When I walked across the stage to get my diploma I felt four years of hard work pay off; four years of community service, of action and creativity, of IA’s and EA’s and EE’s and TOK essays and countless hours of studying. I was