{"id":1554,"date":"2023-02-01T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2023-02-01T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:00:03","slug":"andy-huang-hunter-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/andy-huang-hunter-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Huang, Hunter College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1555\" width=\"194\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andy.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am a senior studying chemistry at Hunter College. I chose to attend a CUNY because it was much more affordable than a SUNY or private college. I live with my parents as dorming would be too expensive. I am lucky to receive the Pell Grant and TAP, both of which help cover my tuition fees. I also receive a scholarship per semester that helps fund my transportation, school materials, and food. While I rely on financial aid, I have come close to losing it during several semesters. This semester specifically, I was stressed about financial aid because I lost TAP. I couldn\u2019t receive it because I was not taking enough eligible credits (the classes I needed to take were locked to the spring semester). I hope to see TAP\u2019s eligibility expand in the future so that it accepts all the classes that students take. Attending college and getting a degree should not be blocked by tuition fees. Students need to be able to focus more on studying instead of stressing about working part-time\/full-time to attend their classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a senior studying chemistry at Hunter College. I chose to attend a CUNY because it was much more affordable than a SUNY or private college. I live with my parents as dorming would be too expensive. I am lucky to receive the Pell Grant and TAP, both of which help cover my tuition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69,54],"tags":[274,16,28,19,15,126],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-46","category-senate-district-23","category-hunter-college","tag-class-availability","tag-financial-aid","tag-pell-grant","tag-student-loans","tag-tap","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}