Berklee or Bust

I never figured

I would use the internet as a tool to raise money for college. I was inspired by people like this to try. ( I mean hell if someone can get a house from a paper clip, I can sure as hell explain my story and hope people want to help me out. Once again, this money solely goes to my college fun, which consists of well, nothing. I guess thats what happens when you live with a single mom with a physical disability. I am just trying to make the best of the situation set before me. I have to raise an immense amount of money to be able to hopefully go to my dream college Berklee. I have worked so hard for get my acceptance and now that I have it I cannot sit by and watch my dream and my hard work go to waste! thats why I am asking for your help so please consider donating a few dollars, hell pocket change to my fund. I would appreciate it immensely!

go here: paypal
and send money to: berkleeorbust@yahoo.com

make sure its a “gift’! 

thank you so much!

Okay, scratch that:

receiver:

You do like my wife and brother did: you apply for private loans and you suck it up and you either go sing, or you don’t.

well being that I am 18, I dont qualify for that loans that big, nor do I have a co signer, thus…no I dont.

Okay, scratch that:

I ended up sending my final letter yesterday and I am suppose to be receiving a call from someone in the financial aid office sometime soon. He said this is just part of the process, but I am going to pray, hope, and wish this is a good sign! (I feel as if I am fighting the man or something. fight those fin aid people) But it all seriousness. Think about it an offer of:

$26,050 (7,000 of that being loans) so, that leaves me with 18,000, now in total they estimate the school year costing, $55,000. So, how I am at 18, suppose to come up with (the last time I checked) $37,000 per year?

What do they expect me to do, sell my first born? Let a company tattoo their logo on my face? Sell my body to the highest bidder on ebay? Yeah, I think not. 

So, the appeal is my best shot at this. It can only help me. They could just say, nope too bad, waste away in Georgia. OR they could make my dreams come true. I mean hell if they just covered my tuition I could figure out the rest.

I’m so stressed and the waiting is killing me.

sincerely, 

Haleigh

I am sending in my appeal letter tonight

I am praying that they will reconsider and grant me enough money to go. I cant let this opportunity pass me by. Its like getting into the harvard of music schools and not being able to go because you are poor. Well hell, I am not I have overcome too much in my to let my dream get passed over because of my lack if money. I paid $150 of my own money for my audition, no one believed I would get in. Even my own family and I proved everyone wrong. everyone and the only thing I have to show for it is a piece of paper saying congrats youre awesome we want you. Well, hell I want you too Berklee I do, but without the funds. I am just going to be sitting there looking at a piece of paper saying, “what if” and not “what is”.

Why thank you!

Sean! :D

hey, its 10 more dollars than I’ve had before. Thank you so much. I wish you all the best. I’d hug you if you were here! 

I followed a ton of my followers

so, I thought I would extend a greeting.

This blog is meant to inform you of my broke ass and the fact that college expenses and I just do not mix. Please read my earlier post for a further explanation. 

In a nutshell: I was accepted to my dream college, which is dream college for many, Berklee College of Music. Yet, the sad reality came that I am about 30,000 dollars away from being able to afford the school. Even with the scholarship and the grants I have received. Living with a single parent with a disability doesnt exactly spell out “oh yes haleigh we can afford for you to go to a 50,000 a year college”. It basically spells out IN STATE, NOT PRIVATE, NOT AWESOME.

So, with that said, I am doing anything and eveything to not let my dream die. I am NOT giving up without a fight.

so, if you would please consider either posting about my blog and/or donating to my fund.

So far I have received $20 and I started this last night, so I’d say that isnt too shabby!

If you would like to donate (which I would forever love you)
Here is the link: PayPal    
Now make sure you establish it is a “gift” and
send it to: berkleeorbust@yahoo.com

Also, thank you so much for your time, this really means a lot. 
If you want me to sing a song for you, just ask! :) 

Last night,

I began this blog in hopes that there will actually be a chance of me affording college. My mother thinks I am crazy and so does my best friend, but this is how I feel about it. If you never try, you will never know. So, Last night I received my first two donations from the wonderful Adam and Jeremy! So, now I have twenty dollars more in my college fund than I did before. Woohoo! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH. 

As I sat in class today I pondered more about this little idea and I figured, well I am going to school for vocal performance right? What if for every donation made, I sing a song, so I mean you guys will get a little bit out of it, rather than “being satisified because you did a good thing.” So, including the boys that donated to my Berklee fund yesterday. For ever donation made, I will sing the song of your choice? I mean if you’d like.

What do you think? 

To sink or swim

Once upon a time I was watching television, like the teenager I am and I saw this woman who got out of thirty thousand dollars worth of debt via the internet. Now, this didnt mean much to me at the time, but I sat and stubbled over ideas of what to do to get money for college(I recently was accepted to my dream school, Berklee College of Music and had to come to they sad realization that I cannot afford it) and I remembered her story. It came to me like a big bright light say “go in, use the internet as a means of getting money so you can attend your dream school!” haha, but I realized this seriously might work. Now, think about it: If I posted this and my 800 followers on my blog each gave me…say one dollar. I’d be a third of the way to owning my macbook. If the donated 5 dollars, I’d have 4,000 out of my 30,000, so thats 13 % of my cost paid for!

I mean, you dont have to donate anything really, pocket change. I mean, even if you just post about this on your blog. It could help. I mean honestly I feel kind of weird asking for money on the internet, but I mean when you with a single mom who is physically disabled, there isnt much more too do, besides apply for every scholarship known to man.

so, if you would be so kind, help me out?

Go here: Paypal
and send money to: berkleeorbust@yahoo.com

thank you so much!