This might be more or less a vent thread for me, but in any case here's the dilemma.
I have a Financial Aid meeting tomorrow for the Art Institute in San Diego. Yeah private schools are expensive we all know that, but what makes it worse is that I know for a fact that our income would hardly pay a chip uve' it let alone even with scholarships and actual financial aid. My Dad had just recently closed his shop (He works independent) and has been dead tired every time he comes home trying to empty the stuff in his shop, which is a quite a lot. We used to have an income around 30,000 a year but I take it now since he is trying to sell refurbished electronics at a swap-meet it would hardly be the same amount. He has even been using my Mum's savings account from her social security to pay the bills. My Dad is insisting that we should go, but I do not want to take a two hour ride with him and my mum for the probable answer that we don't apply for financial aid. Even if we did, I do not want him to commit so much more labor for me and still have to owe money after graduating for my degree. I want to tell him this, but his pride can get the better of him.
I'm thinking of just telling him that the meeting was rescheduled for sometime in January due to the fact it's Christmas in less than a week, and later say that I was declined acceptance to the Art Institute.
I've already had a back up plan uve' working full time in retail at the mall or something, or possibly a graphic design studio on the other side uve' town. Working my arse off until I can live by my own means and financial income. I might try community college and pay everything through my own means. I just don't like the thought that uve' owing so much money that was a burden for my dad, that is now passed on to me. You know?
I have a Financial Aid meeting tomorrow for the Art Institute in San Diego. Yeah private schools are expensive we all know that, but what makes it worse is that I know for a fact that our income would hardly pay a chip uve' it let alone even with scholarships and actual financial aid. My Dad had just recently closed his shop (He works independent) and has been dead tired every time he comes home trying to empty the stuff in his shop, which is a quite a lot. We used to have an income around 30,000 a year but I take it now since he is trying to sell refurbished electronics at a swap-meet it would hardly be the same amount. He has even been using my Mum's savings account from her social security to pay the bills. My Dad is insisting that we should go, but I do not want to take a two hour ride with him and my mum for the probable answer that we don't apply for financial aid. Even if we did, I do not want him to commit so much more labor for me and still have to owe money after graduating for my degree. I want to tell him this, but his pride can get the better of him.
I'm thinking of just telling him that the meeting was rescheduled for sometime in January due to the fact it's Christmas in less than a week, and later say that I was declined acceptance to the Art Institute.
I've already had a back up plan uve' working full time in retail at the mall or something, or possibly a graphic design studio on the other side uve' town. Working my arse off until I can live by my own means and financial income. I might try community college and pay everything through my own means. I just don't like the thought that uve' owing so much money that was a burden for my dad, that is now passed on to me. You know?