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Today is college decision day.
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It's the deadline that high school seniors must decide what college they're
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attending. But this year,
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it might take a little bit longer to decide college decisions are
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getting delayed because the Department of Education released a new version of
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the FASFA. There's been technical difficulties and glitches because of this
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A lot of students actually don't know how much money and
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a they'd be receiving to help pay for their college education.
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That's right. And a lot of them have that some schools
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have pushed the deadline until June 1st,
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but a lot of schools are making them decide today may 1st
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And that leaves people feeling really uncertain because they don't know
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how much money they're going to get.
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So, what did you do?
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Well, I dropped out of UC Berkeley to go to community
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college. And my reasoning was I was too depressed to be
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in debt. Like I just wasn't thriving and I decided
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I want to pursue an education,
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but I'm gonna do it a little bit differently in a way
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that better serves me and my individual path because I'm still figuring
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And listen, what I wanted at 1718 is not what I
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want. Now, at three,
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you know, like you could change your mind and I did
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I didn't apply to any college because I was undocumented at
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the time and DACA didn't exist.
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And so I didn't know how I was going to pay for
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school. And that's a real situation for a lot of students
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And if you're one of those students that don't know what
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you wanna do, that's ok.
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You're gonna change your mind a lot of times and don't feel
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pressured by your teachers,
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your counselors, your parents life can take you many different directions
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you know, the decisions that you're making feels aligned with you
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and that's ok. I really appreciate you saying that because as
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a first generation student,
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I feel like there's a pressure to make my parents,
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make my family, make everyone proud and get that degree.
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I feel like I'm successful as a person and intelligent with or
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without one at this moment,
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it's just kind of like a gold star and a sticker.
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So I really appreciate your advice and I'll keep it in mind
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as I go on with this process and journey that is gonna
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change and go in different directions.
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Thank you. Of course.
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And I think we're doing pretty well.
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I think we're doing just ok
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