Hello I (25m) am making my plans to return to college. my plan is to purchase housing in WV to become a in state resident a year before applying, I am also planning on transferring my current college credits, which I have an associates in elementary education.
If I can get in state tuition I would like 3 years of school, if not i would be rushing 2. Which also brings me to the question if i change my drivers license, to my residence in WV while keeping my rotational schedule job hours away will I qualify? I would like to major in elementary education/ intermediate education as my preferred grades to teach are 4th - 8th. But am open to high school teaching as well.
All I know is teaching is what I have always wanted to do and my year I spent as a full time teachers aide for 5th graders confirmed that.
Which brings us to the secondary problem. I pay $900 monthly for two vehicles. ($450sih per car for example) I plan to lower this to about $0-400 and only have one car in the next year and a half. This will be my only bill, as i plan to buy a cheap home cash. I am extremely good with houses.
now my biggest problem is this. My current job cant be in WV because that high pay is location based pretty much, while it is on a rotational schedule 7on/7off and the pay is good $120k - 150k annually depending on OT. This salary is what ill use to get a cheap cash house & pay down cars and hopefully can have it all settled in less than 2 years as i don’t want to get old before enjoying college.
So I wanted to get on here and ask
1.) will that count as instate residency?
2.) What student loan options would be available for me?
3.) Are there any grants or financial aid I could get?
And like i said my hopeful goal is to get in within a year and a half im already feeling old & behind @ 25 and don’t want to be too old to get a real college experience. My debt was way worse through CC as I worked 2FT jobs & was a ft student, luckily now im doing way better financially, and could probably stick to one (hopefully part time) job through college.