| I was once a single mother, working 2 jobs and looking | | | | myself. |
| after my 2 kids, and I was able to get a Grant for | | | | Guess what? You do not need that. Not at all. You are |
| school. It is the oldest kids that I was once upon a time | | | | very capable of going to the FAFSA government |
| by myself with, they are now 16 and 12, but at the time | | | | website and right there, for free from the comfort of |
| they were only 8 and 4. I had put the youngest in pre | | | | your own home you can start an application for the |
| school and the oldest was in regular school. I worked | | | | Pell Grant. You don't have to pay anyone at all, this is |
| my 9-5 every day and then had a job I went to every | | | | completely fee. Just go there and fill it out. |
| other weekend while they went to visit their "other" | | | | I have to admit that there were parts of the process |
| family. | | | | that seemed intimidating to me. For instance you have |
| Looking on line I decided that it would be a very good | | | | to put in a school code for the school that you want to |
| idea to sign up for some classes at a local community | | | | go to. I had no idea where to get this information for |
| college so that I could have some kind of chance of | | | | the local community colleges. I wanted to pick a |
| not having to work myself to death for the rest of my | | | | community college because of the low tuition, there is |
| life trying to make sure these kids have everything that | | | | more of a chance that the grant will cover all of the |
| they need. I did a simple search on line to look for | | | | expenses. But all that amounted to was a phone call |
| grants. I had no idea there were so many things out | | | | to the school to tell them what I was doing and asking |
| there about it and so many people trying to go back to | | | | them for the code. |
| school them self! What got to me is that every other | | | | That was it, by myself I was able to find the application |
| thing i found on line was something I had to "pay" a | | | | for the FAFSA, fill out the form, and submit. They even |
| small shipping fee for the information, then they were | | | | sent the information to the school for me so all I had to |
| going to stick me with some ridiculous $40 a month | | | | do was go to the school and register for my classes. |
| fee. Just for them to tell me how to find a grant | | | | |