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Need help with Financial Aid paying my rent while I'm a student.?

The college I'll be attending (Western Career College) tells me that I can't get Financial Aide to pay my apartment rent while I'm a student. But I hear quite often about students getting Financial Aid for housing. I'll be pursuing an education for Dental Assistant and then Dental Hygenist. If anyone can give me any tips, that would be great. Thank you.

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1. This is what is happening, but no one from you "Career college" will tell you this. Students can and do get enough financial aid to assist them with other expenses besides tuition like rent, utilities, transportation costs etc. However, your for profit career college is so expensive that all of your aid is being used for that rather than you getting a refund check like those who attend community colleges. Also if you opt NOT to get a student loan, this is less money you will get. My experience with those for profits is students get TONS of financial aid, (loans, grants, etc) but don't do comparative shopping, thus not realizing they are paying 10 times more for a degree or certificate they can get at the local community college for 1/10th the cost. Shop around and find out how much your program compares in cost to the other state schools in the area. You will likely discover that your school costs 15,000 or more a year while the local community college costs you less than 3,000 a year. Now, if you qualify for 5,000 worth of financial aid, all that left over 2,000 is yours to help pay for rent and such. hope it helps.
2. If they know that is all you need assistance with then you cant take out a federal loan maybe a private loan when I say federal I mean federal stafford, the school sets the standers being they have to certify the loan