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13 May 2008

Help Your Way To College

To cope up with the demands of time, one significant thing that a youth must strive for is college education.

Every youth who realizes this fact dreams to go to college to earn for a degree or college diploma.

But not everyone who dreams will be able to make it. Foremost hindrance is the obvious effect of having a family below poverty line - limited financial resources!

Because college education is truly an expensive endeavor.

Thus, there are parents who start preparing for their children's college education as early as they are zero year old. Some parents resort to pre-need or educational plans. Some prefer to save in the banks. Some opt to invest in things or properties which they can someday liquidate. And some do not have any other choice but to leave everything to fate or destiny because they cannot afford to invest nor save for their children's college education.

So, what if you were not fortunate enough to have parents who were able to prepare for your college education? Thus, you have no education plan, no bank account balance nor investment for college education? Or what if your parent's can only afford to pay the school fees but not the daily allowance of a student? Or what if your parents can cope up with the latter but have no ready fund for enrollment fees?

Indeed, either situation does require some other source of fund to be able to go to college.

Yet you need not stop from following your dreams rather you need to strive harder and go for it.

For this, you may wish to try or consider any or whichever is available in the following options to help your way to college:

1. Educational Grants - are free money awarded to an individual by either the government or foundations. There is no repayment required. Sometimes it is also given in the form of scholarship.

2. Educational Loans - are borrowed money that needs repayment with interest.

3. Scholarships - are forms of aid, privileges or opportunities that help students pay for their education without the need for repayment.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Joy..

I don't think there is no reason for someone not to earn a college degree if he/she really wants to...you can find work and support your own studies. I was a self-supporting student until I graduated from college and that's quite an achievement for me.

aiOme said...

Hi, Norynne!

Believe it or not... I read your comment only now... after almost ten years.

Actually, I was also a self-supporting student when I was in college. :-)