Personal Narrative: My Loss Of Financial Aid

My decision to go back to school in the fall of 2012 was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. I’m a stay at home mom of 4 boys with 2 of them being special needs. My oldest was born with a rare genetic condition called hereditary spastic paraplegia and my youngest son was born with a rare condition called Dravet Syndrome that requires 24/7 care. I was at a point in my life where I had lost my identity of who I was and I wanted to be me again. I made that important decision to go back to school for myself with the fear of how I was going to do it, but I knew that it was right. It took me 3 years to complete my AS but with the support of my husband and kids I was able to receive my degree. I worked hard and was able to juggle being

Hopefully, if I am given the benefit of the doubt and the board of the financial aid office contacts my instructor, and hopefully my instructor would vouch that I tried. I never missed class except when I had doctor's appointment and I informed my teacher beforehand if I was going to miss a class. I was also diligent with my homework's and participation. I tried my best and gave the class my all but me failing my exam sealed my faith. Our two exams were worth 50% of my grades and me being a bad exam taker and having the panic attack and running out of my medication before exam week and not being able to get my medication on time, my whole study pattern and exam preparation was thrown out of

With this letter to you, I urge you to please hear me out and help me. I do not have the money to attend UCONN because of my family’s financial situation. The aid I received was a blessing and gave me the opportunity to follow my dreams and make my parents proud. It was the main driving factor for me going to UCONN as I pay for school myself. I had worked all summer and had planned to take whatever the difference was once financial aid was factored in and pay for it with my hard earned money, but now I will not be able to do that because of a miscommunication with my father and my mental illness. If I am granted financial aid, I will do whatever it takes to overcome

It was normal day like any another when I received my financial aid package from college. I remember the excitement that came with being one step further on the path to my life. And just as clearly, I can remember the sinking feeling I got in my stomach when I looked at my financial aid package. This was the first time in my life I had thought I might not go to college. After thought about education, experience, and money, I came to that college is worth the debt that may be incurred.

I just want to start off by saying that this is a difficult stepback for me to accept, due to my determination to be the best student that I can possibly be during my academic career. Therefore, when getting the notice that I was on Financial Aid Warning, I felt heartache of disappointment in myself for allowing this to happen near my senior year of attending this university. With that being said, I plan to really take the necessary actions for you all to understand that this is not normal behavior from me and that I will seek the necessary assistance to be successful.

I started to work as a waitress at very young age. I stopped receiving education because my grades at school were not good and studying seemed to be boring. Working in my twenties appeared to be more adventurous and full of promises. As the time passed by, my routine at work turned out to be a nuisance. I was feeling empty inside without knowing the reason. As my level of expertise in the catering business was growing, the idea of starting up a restaurant on my own was beginning to take shape. I believed to know how to handle a business but I was missing all the technicalities. Getting back to school was a good alternative though I did not feel ready.

I faced academic adversity when I moved to the United States in July 2010. I failed to enroll at the University of Colorado in the fall of 2010 because of lack of sufficient funds. I tried to process loans but could not process any loans because I didn’t have a Permanent Resident status at that time. I had no family or close friends that I could borrow money from since I had just moved to the United States. My desire to accomplish my goal led me to start looking for ways to pay for college. I had the drive, determination, patience and a positive attitude so; I started collecting enough funds by working several jobs. A year later, I enrolled into the university and could only afford to register for a three credit hour class. I was persistent

As I’ve already been accepted into your online program, it has been made aware to me that to complete my financial aid process I must provide for you legal documentation of my parents inability to provide any financial assistance for me. Like most students when I graduated high school I left home to pursue individuality and my own personal goals though me and my parents were in contact and though they were listed on my financial aid worksheet they divided no financial means for me. I transferred to another community college shortly after my first year of attendance at Navarro College, I had moved in with my estranged mother, not only did this volatile relationship put a heavy toll on me mentally but physically as well as I became sick quite

After these 2 F’s I wanted to continue being enrolled in course work because I thought I would be able to complete these having learned my lesson with the F’s I got. Very, very wishful thinking. On the first day of the winter quarter my mother suddenly became abusive. I did not inform her about the F’s so that didn’t cause it. It was due to me getting the accounting books that were necessary to do my course work which I bought. She proceeded to physically and emotionally abuse me because of it, but this grew worse and worse in degrees such as threatening to call the sheriff on me for no reason whatsoever. Because I relied upon her at the time for pretty much everything, ranging from transportation to the bus stops and money due to her having complete control over my finances, she was able to constantly abuse at every point in time. Due to the fact that I didn’t have the means to live on my own I was afraid to tell anyone about what was happening, because worst case scenario I would have become homeless. I was afraid for my life and I just wanted it to stop, I never reacted to her during all this, I stayed silent because if I said anything she would have twisted my words around. Due to this I failed assignments in the accounting course, forgot to upload a file in my spreadsheets course, and plagiarized in the English course. After that I didn’t want to continue being enrolled but my mother told me point blank that if I didn’t enroll for the spring she would kick me out. Given this I went against better judgment and enrolled in the spring of 2012. She became however even worse during the spring and I couldn’t handle it so my mind actually broke and I almost became suicidal in nature. This caused me to skip

I am writing to request consideration for an appeal of my financial aid award package for the fall semester 2015. The reason why I have not maintained satisfactory academic progress is because my home life has been been stressful and chaotic at times. I live with my mom it is just the both of us. I have been through traumatic moments with my mom’s mental illness and substance abuse. My mom has been diagnosed with bipolar manic depressive and dealing with medication addiction during the semesters I have been a student at BCC on and off since 2009.

I would like to give the admissions committee appropriate circumstances that led to my poor performance in years of 2000 to 2004. While attending Butler community county college my dad got sick and he was hospitalized in Tanzanian for majority of my junior college. The illness led to his death. The event was enormously traumatizing to myself and my family. At the same time, he was the one who was paying my tuitions and up keep while attended college. Since my father he was the braid winner to our family I had to attend class and work at the same time to support myself and my family.in order to meet our my needs family needs I had work two jobs while attending school .Bouncing back between these two jobs and school was not easy task, it limited my ability to focus on my school work. Although I was able to work with my teachers to extend deadlines and make up missed work, my jobs did limit my ability to

The general culture of this company is very, very lax. At least, that’s what I got. I’m sure higher up is more professional. They attire that Anna wore made me feel like I could wear anything and get away with it. I started out very professional and turned into just look nice (ish). Its collaborative within departments, but there some communication problems. Apparently someone took Kailin and Anna’s ideas a couple of times. I’m not sure about that but I smile and nod. Really that’s how I get by smile and nod.

I Jered Larkins 2262040 would like the opportunity to explain the extenuating circumstance that hindered my success in furthering my education. During the Spring Term 2013-2014 I was evicted from my place of residence. I have documents showing that I was a tenant at the time of the eviction. My uncle was the owner of the house and gave me permission to stay there so that I was able to attend school and find work to move into my own place of residence. Unfortunately my uncle fell behind on his mortgage and loan payments to the mortgage company that he received a loan from and I had to leave the premises. As for the Fall Term 2014-2015 my mother became ill and was admitted in the hospital for weeks at a time. My sister and I made sure that we

I am a manager at a finance company. Working with finances is what I do day in and day out. I feel this is a gift that God has given me. The financial world can be mentally draining. When I get home that is the last thing I want to attack is household finances. I have a financial plan in place for our home. Becoming more effective with a household financial plan is always on the “to do list”. Cutting cost, managing investments, paying bills, and making adjustments in your budget is what I do best. Unfortunately, I regret not putting a financial plan in place for my college. I am working on becoming debt free from student loans. Student loans have a low interest rate. These loans are an excellent resource to have when needed. It

I am writing the Financial Aid Appeal Borad to ask for support of finanial aid for Fall 2016. I have a deficient completion rate and I have gone over the maximum time frame of credits to obtain my degree. The reason that my completion rate is so slow is because my mother was batteling cancer. I was her caretaker throughout her sickness and honestly I could not do both at the same time even through I tried my hardest. My mom did not want me to quit school to take care of her so I always went back to try. She died on good friday of this year and passed all but two of the six classes. This summer I took two classes and passed both of them. Before she got sick, I had amazing grades and I want to finnish with good grades. I am planning to grauate