As time moves on, it becomes even more noticeable that unless you were the top 3 in your graduating class, than your academic success means nothing. I would've been 6th in my class, if a teacher didn't screw me over and count my absences for National Honor Society against me. I worked my ASS off in school for literally nothing.
I have not won a single scholarship (other than the entrance one the private religious college gives you so the expenses don't scare you away. big deal. the entire student body of that school gets the same thing).
I go through all the scholarship websites I have every two weeks and fill out ALL the scholarships I can. I've been doing this since senior year in school back in 2007.
My GPA was higher than 4.0. My ACT score neared 30. I participated in as many after school activities I could (going to school at 7:35am and leaving school at 5pm just to go to work until 9:30pm, and then to work on 8 hours of homework that came along with honors). And yet it means nothing because I don't have shit to show for it.
The only help I get is from fafsa. Unfortunately, fafsa doesn't recognize a broken family and instead looks at the numbers as a whole. Fafsa doesn't see me only eating one meal a day because my parents can't afford to buy food for the house. Fafsa doesn't see the realitor walking through my house doing an appraisal so that we can put our house up for sale so that the bank can't put a foreclosure on it.
Thankfully, Pres. Obama helped out too by increasing the Pell/MAP grant, which inched a couple of thousands off my bill, enough to tackle the financial expenses increase college's go through every year.
I owe $3000 to my school by the 29th. My financial aid has already gone through.
Fuck.
Guess I'll start filling out the scholarship applications every week now. I'm bound to hit the lottery eventually.
