{"id":609,"date":"2019-05-09T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=609"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:38:18","slug":"hannibal-gray-new-york-city-college-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/hannibal-gray-new-york-city-college-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal Gray, NYC College of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hannibalheadshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" width=\"286\" height=\"215\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When first applying for TAP, I had made a mistake on my form, where I said that my sister was my mother because they didn\u2019t really have the guardianship title for TAP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I didn\u2019t know is that if you do not live with your parents you can claim as legally independent, so they have me as dependent. I submitted a change form via mail and I gave a notarized letter accompanied with that change form saying that I live with my sister and that I get no financial support from my parents, and they didn\u2019t change anything. They changed everything except for the parent income, which is preventing me from both getting my grades and registering for next semester.  Paying for City University shouldn&#8217;t be my biggest stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When first applying for TAP, I had made a mistake on my form, where I said that my sister was my mother because they didn\u2019t really have the guardianship title for TAP. What I didn\u2019t know is that if you do not live with your parents you can claim as legally independent, so they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,122],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-nyc-college-of-technology","tag-financial-aid","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}