Originally Posted by kane

One of the things that helped me out in a major way was financial aid. It sounds like there isn't much where you are. Here we have a bunch of financial aid options. I got grant money and won a scholarship. The combination of those two things ended up paying about 90% of the cost so I ended up getting a degree with only having to pay about $2,500 out of my pocket. I come from a poor family so had those options not been there, the only other choice I would have had was to take on a lot of debt which I'm not sure I would have done. I might have just not gone.