Question: What is wrong with this “picture”? We have politicians fighting for the rights of the poor people and then ones who fight for the rights of the “well-to-do” people…however there are those who SPEAK of fighting for the working, middle class people, however where are the results? I am a 20 year old american girl without a college education. Not even a college education pending. I apply year after year for federal financial aid, yet to recieve nothing. I have no children and haven’t married. To America’s PC terms, I’m doing everything right. I live with my mother, in Florida, who is single and a nurse. Just a regular working class family. My mother and father divorced when I was 10 and father hasn’t done much for me since then. YET, to the government, my mother makes too much money for them to give me aid. Yet we are barely making it! How can that be? I tried to get a student loan, that failed me too. Some people have been misled and tell me to move out on my own and then I will be able to get financial aid. They are wrong. I’ve gone through the application for federal financial aid, with a fine tooth comb, and according to that I am still considered a DEPENDANT until I reach the age of 23! Should I have to get married young, only yet to end in divorce? or should I get pregnant and have a child out of wedlock, just to recieve financial so I can make a future for myself? There are loop holes for “minorities”….and of course the poor people will qualify for financial aid….and the rich kids will be funded by their parents for college. What about the middle class people? YES I could work 2 full time jobs and get the money to go to college, yet how am I supposed to work 2 full time jobs and go to college? I have tried looking online and applying for every scholarship or grant in which I meet the criteria for, yet nothing. All I want is a bright future and not to only be making $7 per hour for the rest of my life. I feel I’m worth way more than that. I feel I have potential for so much more; yet limited because I don’t qualify. I suppose I will have to wait until I reach the age of 23, but should I have to? Even then, I’m not guaranteed financial aid. Left to go from one job to another trying to find a job I can tolerate and to support myself.
Answer: Florida has ridiculously low tuition ($2000 a year full time). A majority of the students at FIU, FAU, UNF, UCF, USF work full or part time. Evening classes are offered at dozens of area campuses. Community colleges are everywhere, and articulation agreements ensure that any AA grad with even a 2.0 GPA will be admitted to one of the universities. I had one student who took 14 years to graduate with an MBA, but he now doing very well as a hospital administrator. Actually, thanks to revenues from the FL lottery, anyone with a 3.0 weighted GPA and a 970 SAT gets a 75% scholarship, so the vast majority of college students in FL only pay $500 a year in tuition.
You need a 3.5 weighted and a 1270 for a free-ride so to speak, free tuition+$600 stipend for books.
Florida makes it VERY attractive for it’s top students to stay in-state.
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