Hi, this may be the wrong thread and I’m sorry if it is but i need to post somewhere and it seems right.
So, i’m currently a freshman in college, less than a week left though and im attending a community college currently because:
1. i wasn’t 100% what i wanted to study and
2. no matter how hard i tried i literally couldn’t get any scholarships
preface this by saying that I am a straight A student and haven’t gotten a B on anything (not even a homework assignment) since my sophomore year of high school. and while i definitely wasn’t top of the class i was up there (although those covid years really took a bit of a toll on my grades freshman year). I am also a first generation college student and the daughter of teen parents.
But here’s the thing. all of that should make me a shoo-in for like a ton of scholarships as long as i write a good enough essay (which i’ve been told by many teachers how good my writing is so this shouldn’t be a problem). but even with all of this I still have not managed to get a single scholarship other than my states last minute “i promise not to do drugs” scholarship. which is a great scholarship that pays for over half of my schooling right now but I’m set to graduate in the fall, which means transferring to a 4 year, and have no idea how i’m supposed to pay for it unless i figure out what im doing wrong in the scholarship department. my parents make just barely too much for me to get anything form of pell grant but not enough to help pay for my schooling at all, and i never had any sort of college fund either (i couldn’t even save up in high school because sports and other extracurriculars kept me so busy no one would higher me). so im completely on my own when it comes to paying for college. I can’t even rely on loads because they don’t offer enough so im completely at a loss here.
how did y’all actually manage to get scholarships and is there something im missing from simply not knowing about it?
i would ask my friends and their parent but honestly im embarrassed to know so little about this whole experience and don’t want to be an extra burden while their dealing with their own college stuff. plus i feel like my friends think im like dumb or something when theres something about college finances that i dont understand so this is a last resort.
(also please dont mind any grammar issues or whatever im typing this at 1:00 am because im having a spiral and wont be able to sleep until i do something to calm it down)