#school costs

Hey guys! Long time no speak I think. I dunno, it’s been a wild ride. So I’m in the LAST run through school. THE LAST few hours. I’m at 1115 of 1500. I’m almost there. 385 hours. I can TASTE it. That’s just about 38 days, with 10 hour days. And I wouldn’t be this far without your support. Financially, socially, loving and determined and joyous with victories and consoling with defeats. I’m SO CLOSE I can’t stand it. At 1201 hours I’m evaluated for my final disbursal from financial aid, where I have a rather substantial payout coming my way. I have just about nine days in class to make it to that, and then maybe a two week waiting period. I need to survive just four weeks and then I’m in the free and clear. I’ve stopped working while I get the last of my hours in, because I have just over 38 days left. I want to kick this thing SO HARD and I’m gonna be finishing in august, it looks like, with the days off for the 4th messing with my schedule. This summer is going to be hell guys. I’m making it work though. My school costs haven’t changed. It’s still about 19$/day for transportation and about 20$/day for food, covering two meals. I’m working with someone to bring those costs down as part of a lunch co-op. I also have gas money concerns, and it’s about 30$/2 weeks, but with rising gas prices that’s going to be more like 40$/2 weeks. So to survive I’m going to need just a last push down that slope. I’m asking for donations one last (hopefully!) time. Again, I cannot stress enough. THANK YOU to everyone who has supported me through this, the crisis modes and the freakouts about the car and the ability to get to/from school. You have been my ANGELS. I’m so close because I’ve had you there to help me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Any donation to my education fund goes right into those expenses. I need to make it to/from school at the very least, so transportation and gas costs are the most vital. I can figure out food if I need to. Paypal.me/theotherguysride

Hello everyone!

I want to start off today by saying a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who helped out with my campaign for last week, getting me the funds needed to make an AMAZING dress for the Aveda catwalk for water. I didn’t win the full ride scholarship. Why? Who knows. BUT WE DID SO GOOD. My model was amazing, the concept was outstanding, and the whole thing was possible because this community made it so. Because of your help, I have a 1000$ scholarship IN THE BAG. I’m completely funded for school tuition through both a Pell grant and federally subsidized loans. However, I don’t get any overflow disbursement until possibly August, most likely October. SO WE ARE ON THE FUNDRAISING TRAIN AGAIN! I’ve set up a gofundme, since they offer ongoing campaign contribution support as well as a longer campaign contribution. I’m potentially going to set up a smaller youcaring, since I know a lot of people DO have issues with gofundme, but I’m not familiar with the particulars. I also have paypal alive and well! Below are my links to the campaign, donations accepted at any point.

https://www.gofundme.com/Megangoestocosmetologyschool

Paypal.me/theotherguysride

The full breakdown of my expenses are as follows, so that y’all can see my budget for the next 6 months! I hope this also helps people who are looking to either budget for themselves, and offers insight as to where I get my numbers! These include expenses for April 2018 through the end of October 2018. Rent: $3000 (THE BIG ONE, but also one that I can fundraise for over time! I pay 500 a month right now, and I do owe some back rent.)

Groceries: $2400 (This includes meals for school, and groceries for home. If you want my full budget breakdown of this I can post that!)

Transportation: $1080 (Metro rides during peak hours for six months. This does not include Uber or Lyft fares, parking, or gas money. This number is likely to change if I manage to get a student discount metro card, but that’s not done yet.)

Household expenses: $800 (This is for things like toiletries, personal supplies, cleaning supplies, and any small household repairs that may crop up.)

Phone: $300 (So that I can stay connected with the world!)

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Total Cost to send additional GRE scores to said schools (2 already have them): $162

Total Cost to send off transcripts from the one university I attended that charges you for each: $30

Online processing fee for the online only option to send off transcripts cause you have to do it online and they leave you no choice: $2.25 per transcript

Total possible cost to apply to 8 schools, 2 of which have most of my information: $580.50

The thought that I could be rejected from every single one, leaving me nearly $600 poorer and feeling that all the money was wasted: Priceless

I think to myself sometimes what it would be like trying to do this without a full time salary job, I think back to deciding not to pursue a PhD program right after getting an MA because I honestly couldn't afford it. And then I think of all those potential students who cannot get into programs because of the astronomical cost of applications alone and it depresses me. Then if I get it, there is tuition, which for 3 hours of graduate school equals nearly 6-9 hours of undergrad in cost, books, travel, and the fact that I have to move and quit my job unless 2 of the 6-8 schools I apply to accept me.

This is the most anxiety I have on a daily basis thinking about this. Wondering what I will have to go through to get ready for August, when most schools don't let you know until March/April if you are in. 4 months to quit my job, find a new one, find a place to live, my wife to find a job, etc. 

This is why I hate people who claim student have it easy today, that minimum wage isn't a big deal, that working harder and furthering your career is what we have to do to succeed. These are people who haven't been in this situation, who haven't had to cut back in order to buy books, who haven't had to make the tough decisions or spend months or years paying off credit cards just to apply to schools, let alone attend them.

I’m not sure why you’re asking me this - I don’t remember saying that my school costs would double if I bought my text books from the school, where they charge full MSRP, but I certainly know that these costs can be completely restrictive for any student on a budget. As an example, here’s a list of the books I had to buy for my last year in school (I’ve used Amazon links as a way of showing the costs; their prices are similar to those at the school bookstore):

Exploring Chemical Analysis:

Quant Text

Amazon: $115 Abebooks: $ 70

Answer guide for above:

Quant Answer Manual

Amazon: $ 63 Abebooks: $ 24

Organic Chemistry:

Organic Chem

Amazon: $290 Abebooks: $110

Answer guide for above:

Organic Chem Answers

Amazon: $153 Abebooks: $170

Lab Manual for above:

Lab Manual

Amazon: $153 Abebooks: $129

Genetics:

Genetics

Amazon: $180 Abebooks: $ 65

Solutions guide (my teacher didn’t require this, but some do)

Amazon: $ 66

C++:

Programming

Amazon: $122 Abebooks: $ 72

Ocean Studies:

The Oceans

Amazon: $ 69 Abebooks: $ 25

Biostatistics:

Biostats

Amazon: $199 Abebooks $ 37

Basic Criminal Investigation:

Investigation

Amazon: $ 30 ;Abebooks: $ 5

Calculus:

Calc

Amazon: $147 Abebooks: $ 1

Amazon total: $1521 Abebooks total: $ 708

So, that’s nearly double for the new books. As it is, I’m at a State College, so my tuition is relatively low. I pay about $6549/year. My figure includes the fees, but not my transportation costs, the costs for notebooks and testing materials or pencils/pens or anything other than fees and tuition. I don’t live on campus, so I drive to and from school every day. Also, I’m lucky – I have a life-partner who can afford to pay our rent and food costs on his own, so I can concentrate on school only. If I had to work full-time, my time and finances would be even tighter.

The school assumes a yearly cost of $5492, which I assume is tuition only and none of the fees. CalState Fees They have a comparative chart of fees here: Fee Comparison