- Jun 26, 2009
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I recently applied to Stanford Online High School to take advanced courses and help my chances of being accepted to a good college. I was accepted, however, there was no way my family could pay the $9,800 per year attendance fee, so my parents agreed to apply for financial aid.
With roughly a few days left to turn in the financial aid forms, I asked my mom if she had them done, to which she replied that this was not anything I needed to concern myself with and to focus on my own life. This might sound normal to most people, but my mom is not one to hide things from me. Money, family problems, you name it, we have a very open relationship.
Because of this, I had a very hard time "leaving it alone", so to say. But I did, which in hindsight was probably not a good idea. A week after the financial aid due date, my mom finally admitted that she never even started the forms, and that she had no idea where to start.
I was shocked, but too busy trying to turn in the forms to be upset. Within a day we had the forms turned in, and I thought that I preserved my chance at attending the online high school.
However, a few days ago when we received the financial aid letter, we hit a very big problem. Because we turned the form in late they decided, financial aid and all, we would still have to pay $9,000 per year.
I begged and pleaded my parents to try, but both posed the same ultimatum at me: Online High School or Gymnastics. To be honest it wasn't very hard to pick gymnastics, but it still killed me inside to lose the biggest opportunity of my life.
And to top it off I found out at Regionals.
I'm sorry if that this is so long and most likely unrelated, but this incident is making me hate that I do gymnastics. Not enough to quit, but enough to where I notice every little thing it stunts, like how I can't do other sports or buy nice things or even have a little bit of free time. All because of the $400 check my parents send to my gym once a month. Part of me hates the fact that my parents use gymnastics as more of an excuse than anything else.
Anyways, thank you for reading, I just really needed to get this out.
With roughly a few days left to turn in the financial aid forms, I asked my mom if she had them done, to which she replied that this was not anything I needed to concern myself with and to focus on my own life. This might sound normal to most people, but my mom is not one to hide things from me. Money, family problems, you name it, we have a very open relationship.
Because of this, I had a very hard time "leaving it alone", so to say. But I did, which in hindsight was probably not a good idea. A week after the financial aid due date, my mom finally admitted that she never even started the forms, and that she had no idea where to start.
I was shocked, but too busy trying to turn in the forms to be upset. Within a day we had the forms turned in, and I thought that I preserved my chance at attending the online high school.
However, a few days ago when we received the financial aid letter, we hit a very big problem. Because we turned the form in late they decided, financial aid and all, we would still have to pay $9,000 per year.
I begged and pleaded my parents to try, but both posed the same ultimatum at me: Online High School or Gymnastics. To be honest it wasn't very hard to pick gymnastics, but it still killed me inside to lose the biggest opportunity of my life.
And to top it off I found out at Regionals.
I'm sorry if that this is so long and most likely unrelated, but this incident is making me hate that I do gymnastics. Not enough to quit, but enough to where I notice every little thing it stunts, like how I can't do other sports or buy nice things or even have a little bit of free time. All because of the $400 check my parents send to my gym once a month. Part of me hates the fact that my parents use gymnastics as more of an excuse than anything else.
Anyways, thank you for reading, I just really needed to get this out.