Okay, so... I got accepted to all the schools I applied to, and my dream school is Pratt Institute. They were the only ones who offered me a scholarship. I've gotten my financial aid awards from 3/4 schools, and at this point so far I would only have to take out 32, 672 dollars in loans a year if I go to Pratt. If I go to the other three, it's more money. (This is just me calculating for the money that's left from cost of attendance to the three schools.) So, obviously, that's a lot, and now I don't know what to do. I've applied to many many many scholarships, and am still applying, and I keep getting back rejections from a lot of the major ones and so far no acceptances from any. I'm kind of at a loss at what to do. I don't even know if I'll be able to take out loans, cause my mom's credit is bad, and what sucks is that the FAFSA accounted for my step dad's income cause they filed jointly but they have separated now as of... Saturday (he left w/ another woman, but that's another story,) which is prob why I didn't get as much for Pell Grant as I thought I was going to.
I'm going to keep applying for more scholarships, but am kind of hoping for a miracle right now, because obviously I don't want to get out of school with almost 160k of loans to pay off. Question is, what would you do? Should I go to Pratt or just apply to my local community college and be stuck in Florida for another two years... I have one side of me saying "you only live once" and another one saying "yeah but you're gonna spend it having too work to pay off that debt" like... I don't even know. I have so many dreams, but it costs so much money lol. And I'm going into graphic design, which isn't some fabulously paying job (and depends on many factors.)
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