I Was Awarded More Money Than I Needed For School

I paid for my first year at a large university with scholarships, grants, cash, and leftover education award $$ from an internship with the National Park Service!

Summer school was over, and the fall semester was just around the corner.

That summer I received my financial aid award letter from EMU, and my tuition was a little over $10,000, but up to $12-14,000 with fees and books and such.

I would be receiving about $6,000 through the Pell grant. Check out a previous blog entitled "I USED THE PELL GRANT FOR GAS MONEY." (This was made possible because I had more money than I needed for that year, woo!)

Eastern Michigan University (EMU) gave me their Regents scholarship, the highest award for transfer students. This subtracted $3000 from my tuition bill.

I was also given the opportunity for $3000 in work study (although I did not actually use all of it).

More on that in a future blog.

I still had $5209.50 left from my AmeriCorps Segal Education Award (when I worked under the National Park Service). More on that in a past blog "The NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Paid For (Some) of My College!!"

Then the university gave me a $1000 Phi Theta Kappa scholarship, the honor society I was in at my community college. Yet again, more on that in my previous blog entitled "How to Leverage Honor Society Scholarships."

I was ready for my first semester at a large, 4-year university!