{"id":397,"date":"2017-12-11T14:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=397"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:23:02","slug":"ramona-shoy-parker-brooklyn-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/ramona-shoy-parker-brooklyn-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramona Shoy-Parker, Brooklyn College"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am a freshman at Brooklyn College studying Communication Television and Radio. \u00a0Without the Excelsior Scholarship, I would have needed to take out a loan. \u00a0Luckily, I found out about the scholarship through Forest Hills High School. They pushed me to fill out FAFSA early. They had an assembly about the scholarship and sent emails with a link to apply. \u00a0I don\u2019t plan to stay in Brooklyn College. \u00a0My mom just moved to Florida and I will be transferring to a school down there. \u00a0I am aware that the scholarship will turn into a loan however, I am still grateful because the scholarship gave my mother time to save up before she can start paying out of pocket. <\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, balancing work and school is a lot. \u00a0\u00a0I am taking 15 credits while working 40 hours a week to pay for additional costs such as textbooks, food and transportation. My mom helps me out with the costs but balancing it is a lot, especially straight out of high school. If I had the option to take fewer classes I would. I believe the scholarship would be better if students were able to take a mandatory 12 credits because 15 is a lot of pressure, especially since the scholarship doesn\u2019t cover Winter or Summer semesters. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a freshman at Brooklyn College studying Communication Television and Radio. \u00a0Without the Excelsior Scholarship, I would have needed to take out a loan. \u00a0Luckily, I found out about the scholarship through Forest Hills High School. They pushed me to fill out FAFSA early. They had an assembly about the scholarship and sent emails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,47,63],"tags":[99,27,18,19,20],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-58","category-senate-district-21","category-brooklyn-college","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-food-costs","tag-job","tag-student-loans","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}