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her face when she came in last week to tell me (insert dramatic pause) that she still hadn’t heard anything, but she had decided to go to the school that accepted her. She wasn’t putting up with the waiting any more. She was going to rip that Band-Aid off and get on with her life.
Accepted, But Not
Enough Money.
This hurts, too. The awful emotion that accompanies this situation is a kind of confusion, mixed with disappointment and the bitterness of having been lied to.
Colleges say that they don’t want money to prevent a child from enrolling. But that Federal Financial Aid form (the FAFSA) can chum out some strange numbers. One student did everything right. He got great grades in tough classes, knocked the SAT out of the park, filled out those applications, got into his first choice school, and then .... nothing.
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