{"id":857,"date":"2020-01-28T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T04:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=857"},"modified":"2020-01-28T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T04:59:50","slug":"saphirah-mcneil-borough-of-manhattan-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/saphirah-mcneil-borough-of-manhattan-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Saphirah McNeil, Borough of Manhattan Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a Business Management Major at BMCC. I believe that I will be graduating on time once I have enough money to pay my tuition. The Financial Aid office and the ASAP program both determined that I\u2019m not qualified to receive aid or enter their program. So, I work part time to provide for myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before attending BMCC, I attended the Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. Back then it wasn\u2019t a struggle to receive aid. Aid to pay your tuition was fully funded through fafsa and it seemed like they helped provide many opportunities that helped students avoid student debt. I have never been in debt before, not until coming to New York that is. It\u2019s honestly a struggle to be a New York student that wants a certificate in what they are passionate about. I believe that there would be a more stress-free campus that wouldn\u2019t deter students or people looking to become graduates with a fully funded CUNY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Business Management Major at BMCC. I believe that I will be graduating on time once I have enough money to pay my tuition. The Financial Aid office and the ASAP program both determined that I\u2019m not qualified to receive aid or enter their program. So, I work part time to provide 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":[13],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borough-of-manhattan-community-college","tag-job","tag-student-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}