how are you paying for nursing school? or how do you plan to pay for nursing school?

[mashamontago]

anybody?

[RhondaBlair]

I have student loans now, but the nursing school that I will be attending is private and you can not use stafford loads, grants or scholarships... I am in the same boat....i don't know where to get the money either. I also have a daughter in college.....but I promise I will find a way.....

[lainith]

Partial Pell Grant, Stafford Loans, CASHOLA, and am going to be taking out a private loan with Sallie Mae to help me with expenses for the next year so I can go to less than half time at work.

[pumpkinhead]

A combination of the following:

1. Federal student loan for tuition and books.

2. Private student loan to help supplement my income. I wish I didn't have to do this because it costs so much to borrow money with a private student loan. But, for a two year program my husband and I decided to bite the bullet.

3. Savings. We saved up a pretty big emergency fund because with a mortgage to pay and me working only part time it's a bit scary!

Unfortunately we do not qualify for grants but I'm applying for scholarships and hoping some of those come through.

[iwillbnrn1day]

Federal Grants and Loans and a couple of Scholarships

[coolpeach]

Grants, loans, help from family, and I pray a lot lol.

[Sandy_dfw]

The military is paying for a good part of my college. I am working full time and my SC will be picking up extra hours to help out. I worked a lot of overtime to pay off my bills and put money into saving for when I have clinicals and will not be able to work full time.

I did a lot of preplanning for this.

[I was made]

I'm paying for it w/ scholarships i got comeing out of high school.

[joshuaha]

I worked full time.... the whole time. I also got tuition reimbursement from my employer.

[pharmgirl]

Don't mean to hijack the thread....but for those of you with Stafford loans (or anyone who knows). Are Stafford loans big on the credit thing? Our credit has really suffered over the last couple years and I haven't even applied for a loan because of that. Someone told me that it doesn't weigh a lot Is that true?

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Unfortunately, according to the government I'm a hair too "rich" for federal/financial aid, and unable to qualify for a lot of the school's scholarships despite my grades because...wait for it...they're also based on need. The curse of being middle class strikes again.

Fortunately, the tuition isn't too bad, so I have been able to swing it, though it's taking some heavy adjustments to my home budget. It's worth it though, to be able to graduate without any student loans this time around--it took me 11 years to pay off the last set.

[Jules A, MSN]

Good old fashion working, lol. I did a min of 30 hours a week through LPN and RN school so I didn't end with any debt or have to use my savings.

[Atheos]

Me too. 1 semester of college = approx. 1.5 weeks of pay. Mind you it is a CC. A couple of my coworkers are using loans but ugh. Life is hard enough without owing Uncle Sam.