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I just got word today that my financial aid appeal was approved, and I can start classes in January. It's a two year program, so I'll be an RN in 2008!

Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, SEOG, etc are all considered Federal financial aid, which are prohibited under financial aid suspensions.

The hospital records room said an estate administrator would be the only one they were allowed to release records to. Unfortunately, there was no estate administrator, because by the time of my mother's death, there was no estate at all. I checked into becoming administrator, and the Probate Court told me it could take 6 months - 1 year for approval. She was hospitalized for the majority of the remainder of time, which took everything my parents had financially. (Which is why bank loans won't work for me now. I've also spent the past 15 years trying to help pay off her bills for my father, so my credit is horrid now) I'm going to appeal it without documentation and hope for the best.

I recently applied to return to college after 15 years of being out of school. My problem is this, though. My first time around in college, my mother was very ill (diabetes, partial paralysis, congestive heart failure, weakened kidney function/liver function). I did okay my first semester, though not as well as I could have, maintaining around a 2.3 GPA, but my second semester (1991) I ended up failing all my classes because of the stress of driving back and forth so often and worrying about what was happening with my mother, plus my father having financial difficulties due to my mother having no medical insurance at the time. I just spoke with my new college and was told that I would be placed on financial aid suspension, which would mean I would recieve no aid (no grants, no loans, etc), but I could appeal it and provide documentation. The problem though, is that this was nearly 15 years ago. I called the hospital and of course, they can't release her medical information to me, even though she is now deceased. I tried to locate her physician and found out he had passed away about a year after my mother died and no one is aware of where her records from his practice would be. It would basically be impossible for me to attend college for Nursing without any type of financial aid, so does anyone have any idea how to go about getting any type of documentation for this? My father says he no longer has anything from that time period, as his sister cleaned the house out after my mother's death so he wouldn't have to deal with it all.