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Hi, my name is Kali Prescott and I'm a student in Salinas, California attending Cal State Monterey Bay pursuing a degree in Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology. I'm asking for donations to my college fund, because I have ruined the last few years of my life in order to save up enough money for college, I have strained and worn and stretched relationships with family and friends. I have distanced myself, buried myself in school work and employment, given up all hope of recreation, sports, or any form of extra-curicullar activities in both high school and college. Ignored stress-related health concerns and injuries, and after all of that it's still not enough.
I took all honors in High School, 7 Advanced Placement courses and tests which I passed; I was formerly in Marching Band and Concert Band, but I was forced to give it up. I worked throughout High School in a part-time job. I saved every. Single. Cent.
And it's still not enough.
I graduated with a 4.7 GPA, top 5% of my grduating class, and with an SAT score of 1940. I applied for scholarship after scholarship, 6 Ivy league colleges, and was rejected or wait-listed by all of them because myself and my parents could not afford to pay.
I attended Community College taking 17 credits a semester, and combined with my AP credits, graduated in one year with an Associate of Science Degree.
I have "done everything right", ignored all of the people who told me I was pushing myself to hard, or that it's ok if everything isn't quite perfect and still...
It's. Not. Enough.
My dad is a disabled military veteran who has gone back to school to become an electrical engineer, and my mom is an aid for High School Special ED. Classes. My dad was unlawfully laid off due to his disability we couldn't afford to go to court and the company went under anyway. My mom makes very little so whatever spare cash my family has goes towards my older sister's art school. She has been pushed aside and ignored by teachers and students her entire life because she's "a little different". Doctors have tried to force drugs on her calling it "ADD" or some form of high function autism. She so smart, smarter than me half the time, she just sees things in a completely different way from everyone else and she's rejected because of it. She NEEDS this Art School so I fully expect my parents to do whatever is necessary to make sure she gets it even if it means I have to bear my own college expenses entirely on my own.
College is a business in the US, it's widely known that the top schools in the country (Princeton, Harvard, etc...) make enough on fees, interest, and governement funding to give all of it's students free tuition and still turn a profit, and they've been shamed into doing so in the past. Yet they charge students like me $50,000+ a semester or reject us if it looks like another kid they have to give free schooling to even though they can afford it.
CSUMB is only moderately better. I enrolled as an out-of-state student. I transfered in as a Junior, I will be forced to pay double what resident students pay long after I become a resident becaue the requirements state I must be a resident for 3 years before attaining resident tuition. Even if I transfered in as a freshman I would still pay out-of-state tution for three years. I couldn't have ever afforded that and so my situtation stands.
I will have to split my last two years of school in to three years if I hope to afford it. I've been forced into loans that I've tried to avoid since I began college. Even still it's hard.
I'm taking 13 credits now, and working a part-time job that doesn't cover my living expenses. I know for a fact if I work full-time it won't work with my college schedule let alone allow me time to study or finish assignments. In addition I need to attend graduate school for my degree in Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology. I want to be a world class conservationist. I want to make a difference, and prove that just because I'm a woman, just because I'm young, just because I've struggled, doesn't ever mean I won't succeed and prove so many people, and parties alike, wrong.
I want to participate in my school's UROC mentor program which will put me with a mentor in my field working together with them in their research. It will take all of my time and having a part time job then will be virtually impossible.
So I'm asking now for donations. I refuse to be a failure, I refuse to settle, but I need my life back, I need time, and I need a little help.
So I'm asking that each person whose sees this donates just $10. Then I'll reach my goal and money will no longer limit all of the things I want to achieve.
Hi, my name is Kali Prescott and I'm a student in Salinas, California attending Cal State Monterey Bay pursuing a degree in Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology. I'm asking for donations to my college fund, because I have ruined the last few years of my life in order to save up enough money for college, I have strained and worn and stretched relationships with family and friends. I have distanced myself, buried myself in school work and employment, given up all hope of recreation, sports, or any form of extra-curicullar activities in both high school and college. Ignored stress-related health concerns and injuries, and after all of that it's still not enough.
I took all honors in High School, 7 Advanced Placement courses and tests which I passed; I was formerly in Marching Band and Concert Band, but I was forced to give it up. I worked throughout High School in a part-time job. I saved every. Single. Cent.
And it's still not enough.
I graduated with a 4.7 GPA, top 5% of my grduating class, and with an SAT score of 1940. I applied for scholarship after scholarship, 6 Ivy league colleges, and was rejected or wait-listed by all of them because myself and my parents could not afford to pay.
I attended Community College taking 17 credits a semester, and combined with my AP credits, graduated in one year with an Associate of Science Degree.
I have "done everything right", ignored all of the people who told me I was pushing myself to hard, or that it's ok if everything isn't quite perfect and still...
It's. Not. Enough.
My dad is a disabled military veteran who has gone back to school to become an electrical engineer, and my mom is an aid for High School Special ED. Classes. My dad was unlawfully laid off due to his disability we couldn't afford to go to court and the company went under anyway. My mom makes very little so whatever spare cash my family has goes towards my older sister's art school. She has been pushed aside and ignored by teachers and students her entire life because she's "a little different". Doctors have tried to force drugs on her calling it "ADD" or some form of high function autism. She so smart, smarter than me half the time, she just sees things in a completely different way from everyone else and she's rejected because of it. She NEEDS this Art School so I fully expect my parents to do whatever is necessary to make sure she gets it even if it means I have to bear my own college expenses entirely on my own.
College is a business in the US, it's widely known that the top schools in the country (Princeton, Harvard, etc...) make enough on fees, interest, and governement funding to give all of it's students free tuition and still turn a profit, and they've been shamed into doing so in the past. Yet they charge students like me $50,000+ a semester or reject us if it looks like another kid they have to give free schooling to even though they can afford it.
CSUMB is only moderately better. I enrolled as an out-of-state student. I transfered in as a Junior, I will be forced to pay double what resident students pay long after I become a resident becaue the requirements state I must be a resident for 3 years before attaining resident tuition. Even if I transfered in as a freshman I would still pay out-of-state tution for three years. I couldn't have ever afforded that and so my situtation stands.
I will have to split my last two years of school in to three years if I hope to afford it. I've been forced into loans that I've tried to avoid since I began college. Even still it's hard.
I'm taking 13 credits now, and working a part-time job that doesn't cover my living expenses. I know for a fact if I work full-time it won't work with my college schedule let alone allow me time to study or finish assignments. In addition I need to attend graduate school for my degree in Ecology, Evolutionary, and Organismal Biology. I want to be a world class conservationist. I want to make a difference, and prove that just because I'm a woman, just because I'm young, just because I've struggled, doesn't ever mean I won't succeed and prove so many people, and parties alike, wrong.
I want to participate in my school's UROC mentor program which will put me with a mentor in my field working together with them in their research. It will take all of my time and having a part time job then will be virtually impossible.
So I'm asking now for donations. I refuse to be a failure, I refuse to settle, but I need my life back, I need time, and I need a little help.
So I'm asking that each person whose sees this donates just $10. Then I'll reach my goal and money will no longer limit all of the things I want to achieve.
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Kali Prescott
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