Confused about community college enrollment/payment situation as a high school senior with no one to guide me.
Basically, I found out I don’t qualify for the tuition waiver/programs people told me about. I’m not undocumented, so I can’t get the undocumented tuition waiver, and I also don’t qualify for LAUSD Promise because apparently I haven’t been here long enough (I’m a recent immigrant).
Now I’m confused about enrollment. Can I still enroll in classes even if I haven’t paid tuition yet? Or do I have to fully pay first before I’m allowed to register for classes? And how do I enroll to classes? (for the fall semester btw)
Another thing is that financial aid would most likely be paying for my tuition fee alone, so now I’m worried if I have to wait for financial aid first before I can even enroll into classes, or if I’m supposed to somehow pay the tuition first before registering.
Another problem is I think my student account might be locked because I haven’t logged in for a while, so now I can’t even tell what’s going on with my portal.
I genuinely don’t know how community college enrollment works at all and nobody in my family really studied in America so they don’t know how to help me.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? Especially as a first-time student/high school senior? What should I do first:
• unlock my account,
• talk to financial aid,
• or try enrolling in classes first?
I’m scared classes are going to fill up while I’m trying to figure everything out.