Paying for college

For the people who were undocumented students who graduated from universities, how did you pay for it? Tips and ideas would be greatly appreciated

I've said this before but.... mostly just blood and tears

Lots of hard work and generous family and friend contributions. It was very hard

Go to community college for the first two years, saves you a ton.

I understand that going to a CC is an option, but I want to fully explore my options so that I can attend Binghamton University.

I got agree with the above advice. I went to a university and now I'm back in a cc and wish I had done it the other way around. My field is in the sciences and I've gotten had a much better experience actually talking to my teacher, lol.

Community college would've saved me a lot of tears.

I also went to a CC for a couple years then transferred. It essentially cuts the costs in half or a third. I would suggest that.

We don't really have the luxury of choosing to attend an expensive school for all four years. Take what you can get. You probably would be able to go to a university all four years, but it would be way more difficult.

I paid for my school out of pocket, but you can get some scholarships to help. It also depends on what state you're in. I'm in California so I was fortunate enough to be covered under AB540.

My parents paid for me. I attended CUNY because it was what we could afford and they gave us this payment option of paying monthly installments. It was still a struggle but my parents worked their behinds off and tried their best. As jrpallares said we don't really have the option of choosing to attend an expensive school so I would check out other options before you decide on Binghamton

i had to drop out -_- i took one class and that was all i could afford.

I live in FL and i went to a community college. but i had to pay out of state tuition and one class cost me $1,400 plus the book that was like $150 and they had to payment plans or financing. i had to pay it before classes started. and they only gave i think 2 weeks to pay for classes after registration.

i took that one class and after that i didn't think it was worth it.

There is an issue with CC classes. While yes it is a good way to get a cheap education the first two years, and you can transfer to other schools, you should keep in mind what school you are hoping to get into, and be very certain that the classes that you are taking will be accepted. I have seen people that took two years of community college classes only to come to the school I currently attend and basically start over from essentially scratch because most of the credits did not transfer. Furthermore, the grades that you get on community college does not transfer, those classes are accepted as credit with no score, and if you think about it, those first two years are dealing into classes that are generally easier, so when you get to school you are literally going to hit the ground running, and depending on your major you are not going to have much of a GPA to fall back on if you say do poorly in a couple classes, and generally those first two years are classes that would be the easiest classes. Also there are many classes in a university that may not be taken anywhere else.

That takes care of that...

As for how I pay for my university, pain and tears seems to be the common way to pay right now, mostly my family and family friends help with my education, I stay with family friends closer to the uni to cut down on the cost, I use the library for the texts (thus I literally stay in the university from early in the morning until in most cases after midnight), and I managed to get a loan, I also work during the breaks saving money so that I may use it towards other costs while in the uni.