Tuition for College
To whom it may concern:
My name is Omara. I am an 18 year old student who has been dreaming about going college to study fashion merchandising and fashion design.
As I am writing this it is March 31st of 2020, and I am in the process of trying to get through my senior year of high school while deciding where I want to go off to college...if that is even a possibility for me.
My mother is a single mother who works in house keeping, sadly work has been slow for her. Due to this corona epidemic, it has been difficult for her to maintain all the bills when she isn’t working. I have been helping her with the little bit of money that I have been able to raise over the years but it’s still difficult.
I was accepted into LIM College, a private college in Midtown Manhattan that focuses on the business of fashion, for their associates degree in fashion merchandising. I was granted a small yearly scholarship due my academic performance over the four years in high school. My mother and I did the math where it resulted in us still having to gain $19,810 for my tuition. So for two years, because I had hope an associates would make it a bit easier for us, my mother and I would have to get a total of $39,620.
LIM is my dream school, it’s where I’ve wanted to go since I was in the fifth grade. It felt like home. My mother already feels at lost, and as her only child she feels like she has let me down in not being able to grant me the education she has always wanted to give me. She feels like all the hard work and sleepless nights I put in to get my grades were for nothing if I can’t even attend college.
I plan to gain my associate degree and get a stable job to help support my mother and I. Once I have earned enough, I plan to go back into college and gain my bachelors. Hopefully gain a bachelor’s, or even master’s, degree in fashion designing in the future. My beloved mother has sacrificed so much for me, and I don’t want to continue seeing her suffer. I want to make her proud. We pray to God every day to lend us a hand and we have faith that a chance will arrive.
I am not asking for much but even a small donation would help us out. Thank you for taking the time to hear me out. Have a blessed day.