I am a sophomore studying criminal justice that wants to go to John Jay. I receive the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)award and the Pell Grant and I am part of the ASAP program.\u00a0 Since ASAP covers textbooks and metrocard, I can use Pell for food and other bills. I also have a paid internship with a cadet which helps me pay for some of the textbooks that don\u2019t get covered through ASAP.\u00a0 I am the first person in my family to go to college, my family is from Ecuador.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t get financial aid I would have gone to the army because they pay for college.\u00a0 I was part of CUNY Start originally and it helped me get through remedial classes by offering textbooks and advisers for much cheaper.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would have liked to be in the ACE program at John Jay but it doesn\u2019t cover transfer students.\u00a0 I will probably rent textbooks when I transfer.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been looking for internships for credit so that I graduate on time at John Jay and don\u2019t run out of my financial aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am a sophomore studying criminal justice that wants to go to John Jay. I receive the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)award and the Pell Grant and I am part of the ASAP program.\u00a0 Since ASAP covers textbooks and metrocard, I can use Pell for food and other bills. I also have a paid internship with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,93,53],"tags":[186,76,103,62,28,15,20],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-72","category-senate-district-31","category-queensborough-community-college","tag-ace","tag-asap","tag-cuny-start","tag-first-generation-student","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}