{"id":493,"date":"2017-12-20T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=493"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:05:52","slug":"winnie-lei-city-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/winnie-lei-city-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnie Lei, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-495 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/winnie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"329\" \/>I am a freshman at CUNY City College. My major is currently undeclared but I am exploring my options by taking a\u00a0diverse range of classes. I do not have a job but would like to get one in the future to support my daily needs. Due to my parents\u2019 income, I do not qualify for financial assistance and do not receive any TAP or Pell Grants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although CUNY\u2019s tuition is lower than other schools, my parents have to pay all the school costs for both my brother and I, which places a significant burden on their shoulders. I do not qualify for the\u00a0Excelsior Scholarship because my household income is slightly above the limit. I am able to pay for textbooks and\u00a0weekly meals but the costs continuously add up. I am only a freshman so I have three more years of tuition, textbooks, and other costs left to pay in order to continue my higher education. As a result, my biggest challenge is not my classes, but being able to pay for the classes I need in order to graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a freshman at CUNY City College. My major is currently undeclared but I am exploring my options by taking a\u00a0diverse range of classes. I do not have a job but would like to get one in the future to support my daily needs. Due to my parents\u2019 income, I do not qualify for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,92,106],"tags":[27,20,126],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-23","category-senate-district-15","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-food-costs","tag-textbooks","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}