How do ya’ll afford school?
Hello fellow dreamers! I been wondering how some of you manage your pursuit of education.
I live in Florida, as you all know not the friendliest state for immigrants let’s put it slightly. No community college option for DACA recipients here, so I was looking at nursing school in a private school. The bill was 14k+ for 6 semesters! So with other fees about 90k. They want the 14k straight up, I guess they don’t trust me for monthly payments! I was hoping my hospital job would give me some financial aid, but alas they only award that to citizens. Maybe move to a more friendly state, but that would be its own trial of starting over in a new city with no family help.
I wanted to be a nurse because I wanted to feel the accomplishment of actually helping people, not the money aspect of it, but with prices like that and no certainty DACA won’t just disappear any day the risk of losing that much money is really bad. It’s really bleak out here ya know? Hard not to get black pilled with how things are looking recently.