Hi, I am 19 years old and about to start my sophomore year in college. When I was in high school I knew exactly what I wanted, freedom. When I accepted into University 4 a state away and on a partial scholarship, I jumped onto the opportunity. Now freedom was not the only reason I went to school, I plan on pursuing a career in child protective services as a social worker. I feel quite passionate about helping the helpless. Luckily My financial aid was able to cover the rest of the costs of my tuition. The only costs that were left onto me were the housing fees which were manageable but only with a part time job. 

Unfortunately during the last semester I was diagnosed with depression. This affected every aspect of my life. I lost 30 lbs in about 2 and a half months, and was unable to leave my room or even my bed unless I had work or class. Sometimes I wasn’t even able to do that. This was a factor that caused me to not do so well in school. This eventually led to a downward spiral of me not prioritizing my mental health and ultimately failing in every aspect of my life. Due to my incredibly low grades that resulted from the semester, I have had both my financial aid and partial scholarship revoked.

Now that I am not in school I have reached out to and been put on medication along with being paired with my amazing therapist. I have also reached out to my university who, while sympathetic, can not return my scholarship until I have a semester to prove an upward change. The same goes with my financial aid. I have also been working two jobs for the majority of the summer in effort to raise the money independently. 

I have tried so many things to make ends meet. I am confident that I will stay on the track I am on with the new support system I have. I just need this one chance to start over. This is kind of my last option, I’m sorry to bother and ask for this much money. I have been able to get about half of tuition money raised. I need about $20,000 of my $45,000 tuition. Thank you so much for hearing me out. Truly any amount would be greatly appreciated.

My pay-pal link is paypal.me/biancaVga

Hello, my name is JJ and I’m pretty much a broke college student. I know that there are probably loads of other people out there that need money (so many people do) but I’m hoping that you’ll take a second to consider donating to me.

As I’ve said, I’m a college student currently studying psychology. My ultimate goal is to become a practicing clinical psychologist. I’ve always wanted to help people and I work hard and am really good at psychology (no, I’m not bragging), but that isn’t really enough to cover all of my costs. Because I’m a full-time student and I am involved in things on campus, I can only really have one part-time job, so I work about twenty to twenty-five hours every week, but it’s at minimum wage and I need to pay for my groceries, gas, insurance, etc. so most of that money goes towards that.

To be honest, I can get by, I always have been able to but it is a struggle. I’m in my last year of undergrad and I’ve had to pay to take the GRE test which has taken a significant chunk out of my savings. Mostly, I need money to help build my savings so I am able to go to grad school and actually live. I need to be able to afford an apartment and the rest of my expenses (like food, gas, and other bills).

I’m pretty much a straight-A student with a GPA of 3.8 and all I really want to do is help people any way that I can and I know that clinical psychology is the right field for me to accomplish it. However, I am extremely worried about being about to do so. I am not a partier nor am I in the habit of purchasing unnecessary things so any money that is donated will not be used to buy things like that. Instead, one of my favorite things to do is cook, so any money that is not immediately put into my savings account will be used for my weekly grocery bill.

Depending on the donation, I will also use that money towards my tuition and other schooling bills. I have taken a loan out, but to be honest, I would really rather not borrow any more money than I already have to cover those costs. I will also need to purchase textbooks and a couple of other odds and ends that add up (like notebooks, pens, toiletries, etc.)

Really, any donation would be extremely helpful, whether its a couple dollars or more and I would very much so appreciate it. Thank you so much!

paypal.me/jjlaw99

I’m currently a University Student and sadly I’m not the best in obtaining grants and scholarships so I have been relying on student loans. I’d like to prevent going into further debt. I work minimum wage and most of it goes towards basic necessities and saving up for a car, so I’m basically broke and unable to afford University pricings on my own. I attend University in South Carolina, USA. Any help is truly appreciated as I’m putting most of what money I have currently towards this post.

My PayPal is paypal.me/keeganstrothmann

Hello,

I am a full-time student at UF, and I am seeking money for help with my tuition fees and living costs. I come from a low-income family and they are unable to support me on my journey in college, which limits my college opportunity and experience.

I am a pre-dental student; school, studying, and extracurricular activities take up all of the time required for me to do well in school. I am an extremely dedicated student and spend all of my days and nights inside of the library doing homework and studying. This makes it extremely difficult to get a job, since my academic performance would suffer. As a first-generation student, it is rather difficult accumulate to college, since I cannot have any advice on courses or cannot afford any tutoring in my high-intensity classes. I am asking for this help so I can continue focusing on my studies to meet my goal of being able to become a dentist. With these donations, I could also focus on volunteering, extracurriculars, and giving back to my community while in school.

When I become a dentist, I plan on making a difference in this world and giving back to poor communities that cannot afford expensive dental care. I hope to grow and help others who worry when they will be able to take their child to the next doctors visit. I plan on becoming a doctor that cares about and prioritizes their patients and can help as much as possible. I have always yearned to help people and make their way of living better in any way. Coming from low-income, I can relate to the stress of not being able to afford a doctor’s visit and having to push back the years I visit, no matter how important health may be. You would be taking a chance on me in helping needy communities.

It is important for me to reach my goals to ensure I can take care of my family when I am older. I have always wanted to provide for my family and sacrifice for them as they did for me. Your donations would help me break the cycle of poverty within my family and to be able to provide for my parents in old-age and my future kids.
Thank you for your time in reading, and I hope you can help me in my journey to success.

I am asking for around $4,000 but anything helps. Thank you again.

https://paypal.me/sayra2000

Hello everyone, thank you for clicking on my story, I am a 22 year old Latina.

A little back story about me, I was born and raised in Texas up until I was 8 years old. In November of 2006 ICE arrived to our house and took my parents to jail to later sent them back to where they are from (Guatemala) due to them entering the country illegally many years ago. My parents were trying to get their papers fixed, however they unknowing went to a scammer who never did anything to help them. A month after my parents were deported my sisters and I joined my parents in Guatemala and I lived there for almost 10 years, since 3^rd grade up until I graduated high school.

I graduated high school back in 2015, in Guatemala, and once I graduated I bought a plane ticket to come back to the US to have a better education. I knew that this was the best opportunity for me and that I was extremely lucky, however I had to leave my whole life in Guatemala, including my parents. I was attending a community college from Fall of 2016 up until Spring of 2018 where I failed my classes for the second semester due to suffering with depression and anxiety from leaving my life in Guatemala and also not knowing what I actually wanted to do with my life. Although it did take me a while to get out of the dark places my mind went during that time, I was able to discover what I want to do in life and that is Social Work.

I was saving up money these last couple of years to be able to pay for college, however due to COVID-19 I lost my job. I am currently only working a part time job that barely pays for my living expenses (I get paid $450 every two weeks). I spent most of my savings on paying bills and living expenses like food and gas, and although it was my fault for failing classes in the past I am not able to apply for financial aid. Therefore I need to pay my college tuition out of pocket.

For this semester alone I need around $18,000 to pay for tuition, I talked with an Advisor from the school and they told me that I could make payments however they would charge me an extra fee for every payment I made. I know it is a lot of money, however I really do appreciate any donation you could make, no matter how small it is. In the end anything will help to be able to fulfill my dream and make my parents and myself proud and no longer ashamed of my past.

My paypal: https://paypal.me/angee1910?locale.x=en_US

Thank you for reading,

All love,

Angie <3

Hello, my name is Taylor and I’m a hugger, not a fighter. A lover, not a hater. All my life I have been helping people out with their needs and less cared about my own. It’s not that I’m too shy to ask for help it’s just I always saw it as giving up and admitting you’re weak, but then I realized that asking for help should be the first thing because it shows your interest and passion for something. Also, others might have the same question and are stuck as well even though you thought they had it all figured out. I want to go to Baker college in Cadillac in August but there is no way I can get 10,00+ some if I want to do housing which I really do. I want to be a psychologist more importantly a youth counselor. I like helping people but helping people in that way is always more fun and better. At my house instead of treat others the way you want to be treated it is more treat others more then you would treat yourself. There are five of us at home but the one that does everything is me; the youngest. I do everything except cook, do their laundry, and pay bills. Oh and no groceries since I don’t have a car or a license. Even when I did school at k12 on my computer every time they asked for something I did it. I tried everything from brownie points to just straight asking whether it be to go to a friend’s house or the nearest grocery store growing up. They always said no, but it’s time I treat myself. No one deserves anything but it is nice to have it and get away for a while. If you can’t give $10,000 can you at least give $400? It would be much appreciated. Thanks! Have a great day, *huge virtual hug, and see you when I see you next.

PayPal.me/Falcon300.

BC Enrollment Process

Hello Taylor,

Thank you for submitting your application for admission to Baker College.  My name is Amy Martin and I am your Admissions Advisor.  I look forward to helping you complete the admissions requirements for the Psychology degree program. 

All my life I was told I had the tools to be successful. I did fairly well in school, was ambitious, had innovative ideas and had solid networking connections. Everything was going according to plan, until December, 2016.

My dad prior to that date, had moved back to our home country in Africa to live out his retirement. He brought us into this country as refugees from a war torn nation, to set us up for a better tomorrow. He earned his retirement, which is why finding out he had colon cancer was a blow to my mental health. Finding that out, it steered me away from everything. From my plans, my vision board, my academics, it led me to spiral. Never addressing the main factor of my mental distress had resulted in me neglecting school in the worst way possible. Spring 2017 was my worst semester of college yet. It resulted in me getting academically dismissed for a full year. Feeling shame and guilt at failing, I decided to hide this fact, and work my ass off to get back into school. Working full time, paying off rent near campus, and hiding the fact I wasn’t in school from my friends and family. My pride didn’t allow me to ever ask for help, or let my loved ones know I’ve failed them. Fast forward a year, and I went back to school fall of 2018 and got back on track. I made the deans list that semester and was set to finish college strong. Unfortunately, I ran into another major setback. My financial aid was declined for the fall of 2018 due to my past academic failings. That resulted in having that semester’s tuition cost hit my student account.

$8,515.66, it is a number that has haunted me since I found out about its existence. $8,515.66, it’s a number I’ve dreamt about for the past 10 months. It’s the number that is stopping me from closing this chapter of my life that I’ve worked so hard for. It’s the number that’s preventing me from utilizing the networks I’ve acquired to find a steady career that will in turn help me pay more of my dads medical bills. I have fought too hard throughout my life to let this obstacle be the deciding factor in my subsequent failure in helping out my loved ones. Being a first generation college grad, and providing financial freedom to both of my parents. That is why I am swallowing my pride and asking for the generous help of complete strangers. Strangers who I will feel connected with for the rest of my life. I would never be able to repay my gratitude back to those who choose to help, but I would make a daily promise to use their donations as the strongest motivator to create a better life for those around me, and for my community. You will be the biggest reason why my college will have to free my degree.

I thank you all for taking the time out and getting to know me.

https://paypal.me/sFarah5

I am trying to raise money to be able to go back to school. I lost my financial aid and need to pay for a semester out of pocket to regain eligibility. At the college I’m enrolling at the cost of tuition for thirteen to eighteen credits is two thousand four hundred. The fees are about another two hundred dollars and the cost of books will be about four hundred dollars.

My greatest hope would be to raise the $3000 in time to go back June 8 for the summer semester but as that is probably unrealistic my back up is going back for fall semester in August.

I love school and am very excited for my future. I am majoring in English Literature and Computer science. I want to eventually get my Masters of Library and Information Science be an academic librarian and then go back to school again and become a Literature and writing professor.

I wrote a speech for one of my classes that I feel fits this situation:

“A huge problem facing this country is the low percentage of those that move from the bottom of the social ladder or middle higher up. This is known as upward social mobility. In a school survey I conducted, when asked what some causes of the rise and fall on the social mobility ladder are some answered: starting from low income, location, and educational disadvantages. Other answers included: technology, economic status, money, unemployment and unfair wages.

One of the best solutions to improve upward social mobility is Education. One of my favorite quotes is by Nelson Mandela who said: “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”

If more youth are able to go to college and finish then we will have more working adults earning a higher pay rate which will positively affect the economy and increase upward income mobility. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, as your educational attainment goes up from no high school up to a doctoral degree the unemployment rate goes down while your weekly earnings go up.

An issue with higher education is the ability to go to college is difficult for youth coming from families in poverty, lower class, or even some middle class backgrounds. As depicted by the US Department of Education the national average of students from low income is about half and 20% of children are considered to be born in poverty according to the US Census Bureau. Poverty is based on an income for a 4 person household such as 2 parents 2 kids making $24,300 or less per year.

Some things we should do to address the issue are: we need to make changes to financial aid, we need colleges to cut tuition, we need to promote higher education reform, and we need to promote more kids actually going to and finishing college.

As evidenced by studentaid.edu when you fill out the FAFSA: The financial aid system only considers you independent if you are married, have a kid, are orphaned, active duty, or are homeless. What about self-supporting students who do not fit those criteria? What about the students whose parents cut them off after they turn 18 or simply cannot help them after they turn 18? The financial aid system is falsely assuming that all parents will support their kids through college. We need to change the dependency status eligibility to reflect if students are ACTUALLY receiving any support from their parents or not. A study conducted by LEND EDU reported that only 43% female and 50% male receive any tuition assistance from their parents.

Unless their parents are paying their way, students are trying to go to college and then having to work a full time job or two jobs just to pay their leftover tuition and living costs. This is drastically affecting their school work. Also, one of the first things to go when students are broke is the cost of food. With all their other expenses some college students go hungry and it affects their ability to learn. Until we can get colleges to lower the cost of tuition, students are forced to take out more in student loans to cover their tuition, fees, and room and board. The cost of college is way too high. The price of college has risen over 500% since 1985. Students are graduating with an average of almost $40,000 in debt.

US News states: Smart poor kids are less likely to graduate from college now than dumb rich kids. That’s not because of the schools, that’s because of all the advantages that are available to rich kids. This is another big issue that low income students face: staying and completing college. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, while 60 percent of the wealthiest students complete their studies and graduate, only about 16 percent of low-income college students graduate.”

So I guess, I am just a hard working student trying to not be a statistic.

Once again, I’m looking to raise $3000 to cover tuition, fees, and books. Thank you so much to anyone who helps. God Bless.

paypal.me/Kea12312