Lost & Confused Applicant Seeking Advice
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:27 pm
I don’t know where to begin but in short, I am in a stick a** mess.
I am a fifth-year senior at Cal. During my fourth-year, I became sick and my studies were partially derailed. I ended up taking incomplete for four classes and stepped away from school. Furthermore, it pushed back my plans to take summer classes and an extra semester to finish my major upper divs.
I came back this past fall and killed my outstanding incompletes, earning all A’s and earned A’s in the classes I was enrolled. This brought my cumulative GPA to a 3.93; I was no slouch in undergrad.
It was my plan to take my last semester classes this Spring, however, my family fell on hard times. My family is dirt poor, both of my parents are disabled and medical bills for my mother were pilling up. The funds I anticipated to finance my last semester of school were used to help my family and consequently I couldn’t pay for school.
I don’t qualify for federal loans because the UC’s don’t finance anything for me past a fourth year, extra semester. To make matters worse, my credit is not strong enough to qualify for a private loan and I cannot get a co-signer.
I have petitioned my school to help me out but guess what, no help. The state budget cuts have left Cal with limited funds and me high and dry.
I am so pissed…my plans to finish college are ruined, my plans to apply to law school are being shelved for another year and I feel that my enability to graduate in a timely fashion from college will hurt my law school application in the future?
I have looked into finishing up at a local JC but classes were cancelled this summer. And to add salt to my wounds I was informed come enrollment time for classes this fall at my hometown JC, I would have last choosing because I am not a continuing student.
What should I do? I feel so f*ked with college and law school admissions.
I am a fifth-year senior at Cal. During my fourth-year, I became sick and my studies were partially derailed. I ended up taking incomplete for four classes and stepped away from school. Furthermore, it pushed back my plans to take summer classes and an extra semester to finish my major upper divs.
I came back this past fall and killed my outstanding incompletes, earning all A’s and earned A’s in the classes I was enrolled. This brought my cumulative GPA to a 3.93; I was no slouch in undergrad.
It was my plan to take my last semester classes this Spring, however, my family fell on hard times. My family is dirt poor, both of my parents are disabled and medical bills for my mother were pilling up. The funds I anticipated to finance my last semester of school were used to help my family and consequently I couldn’t pay for school.
I don’t qualify for federal loans because the UC’s don’t finance anything for me past a fourth year, extra semester. To make matters worse, my credit is not strong enough to qualify for a private loan and I cannot get a co-signer.
I have petitioned my school to help me out but guess what, no help. The state budget cuts have left Cal with limited funds and me high and dry.
I am so pissed…my plans to finish college are ruined, my plans to apply to law school are being shelved for another year and I feel that my enability to graduate in a timely fashion from college will hurt my law school application in the future?
I have looked into finishing up at a local JC but classes were cancelled this summer. And to add salt to my wounds I was informed come enrollment time for classes this fall at my hometown JC, I would have last choosing because I am not a continuing student.
What should I do? I feel so f*ked with college and law school admissions.