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fadingintoblue (profile) wrote,
on 3-16-2005 at 3:43pm
Current mood: good
Subject: Yay!
I got financial aid from Goucher! $10,000 a year need-based grant, plus the $10,000 scholarship they told me about earlier. $20,000 a year. They also offered loans and a work study, though I'm going to try and avoid the loans (and maybe the workstudy for the first year until I'm comfortable enough to get a job).

This means I can go. No one's come up to me and told me that yet (no one even knows I got this letter yet), but I don't care. My one grandmother said she could cover $15,000. Tution, fees, room and board, and estimated costs for books, travel, and personal items equal about $38,450. That only leaves $3,450 a year that needs to be covered. Even if my parents can't give me a dime, I can cover some of it with the $1,200 a year I can make with workstudy, and the rest with the money I've saved (about $1000 at present, but I'll have over $2000 after working this summer, and I can always save more of what I make if I have to). Plus I have a $5000 CD, and some random educational fund my grandpa set up, and another grandma (thank you!).

So, basically, I'm going to Goucher. It's three hours away, in a cool area, and it's definitely attractive (in so many ways). Yay!

EDIT: My mother came home and pointed out that the $15,000 might be for both me AND Jennie (who costs $20,000 a year), but that might also be per semester. And Jen has a $9,000 CD, which is good. But she says I can go, and if I have to do it with loans, oh well.
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