{"id":468,"date":"2018-06-01T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=468"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:04:44","slug":"susan-brea-riley-suny-new-paltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/susan-brea-riley-suny-new-paltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Brea Riley, SUNY New Paltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-793 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Susan-Brea-Riley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"336\" \/>I have a few grants, some scholarships, and the Excelsior Scholarship. I pay for nothing but books, however the Excelsior Scholarship definitely needs to be a little more transparent with its requirements. I didn\u2019t have an issue with it at first but then they didn\u2019t want to give me the scholarship even after I qualified and was accepted for it because I had 9 credits on my transcript from a school I used to go to.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There, I paid out of pocket for everything and it was too expensive. I had to budget a lot of things out of my shopping list and even went on a diet due to my school expenses while at my last school. I was considering taking out loans before the Excelsior Scholarship came around because I was literally putting my health at risk by not wasting money that could go into school. College is a necessity. There is no reason for it to be treated like it\u2019s a luxury when we have western countries being just as successful as we are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few grants, some scholarships, and the Excelsior Scholarship. I pay for nothing but books, however the Excelsior Scholarship definitely needs to be a little more transparent with its requirements. I didn\u2019t have an issue with it at first but then they didn\u2019t want to give me the scholarship even after I qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,124,26],"tags":[187,99,27],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-103","category-senate-district-42","category-suny-new-paltz","tag-credit-requirements","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-food-costs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}