How Financial Aid Affects My Life

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To whomever it may concern, I would appreciate if you consider all aspects of my situation when reviewing me for financial aid. Although the tax forms you review state that the household income is a decent amount of money, the majority of that money comes from my step parent. Since I have started my college career I am used to getting close to no financial aid because of this. I have grown up the majority of my life from age two being raised by my single mother with no child support and her income of less than 20,000 a year. This case remains the same today, even though she has married, I don’t receive a penny of the money earned from my step parent. Ever since I was of age to work at 15 years old I have worked very hard, about 30 hours a week, while attending …show more content…

On top of the stress of finding the money I need to fund my tuition, This past year my step sister moved into the house with us and made the living conditions of my house nearly impossible to deal with. Having Bipolar issues along with a very severe drug problem and refusal to listen to any authority, she nearly divorced my mom and her husband and drove me out of the house. I spent about a month going between houses of my dad, grandparents, and friends nearly living out of my car and fighting with my parents constantly because she was uncontrollable. Throughout all of this it was close to impossible to ever focus on my school work, for awhile I became very depressed and unmotivated to do anything, but I still pulled through and made sure my grades stayed at mostly A’s. Although my living conditions are better now than they were, they’re not perfect, but I would like you to know that I take my studies very seriously and am very passionate for wildlife and biology, and learning how I can make an impact in wildlife

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