hands? Ok, here's the deal...I was an idiot when I first got out of high school, and really screwed up the first two semesters worth of college...my gpa was terrible...I then transfered to another school, well call CCM...I went there and made a lot better grades (fall 2003) and then I got married. I suffered a lot of things in that marriage and was beat, raped, taken out in the middle of nowhere and left for dead in the middle of december with nothing more than a t shirt to keep me warm...for example, my lip was busted with the butt of a pistol, then beat, forced to have sex, and told that if I moved that I would be killed...just stuff like that. My ex wouldn't work, so I frequently spent the night in a house that would be 32 degrees in the warmest part of the house. We had no food, and what food we did get was gobbled up by the bum of a husband that he was. So, I was also forced to go days with out food.
All this happened in the spring of 2004. I had to drop out after that to go get a job to support us. This continued until November of 2006 when we split up for good after he almost killed me for good...I was scared to leave, but yet I was scared not to, know what I mean? Sounds stu[id I know. But in the middle of the divorce and after being put in mental hospitals after numerous attampts at suicide, I finally got up the guts to go back in the summer and fall of 2007. I might also mention that I was also having a lot of health problems during this time, as well...I went back and made strait C's with only one F, and even with all that, I thought that those were pretty good grades considering that I was taking 4 science classes at a time. But not good enough for them, so they put me on academic suspension, which I deserved...I was after that put into another accute mental health facility where I stayed for a month...I got out of there and got a job at walmart, got married again, had a baby with bad health problems in April 2009... I was going to go back this semester, but since I got put on academic suspension, I had to write a letter of appeal stating all of what I just told about, provided proof of my divorce, my health problems, and even proof where I was in mental health facilities, copies of my divorce papers, everything...but my financial aid was denied...
I feel as if, given all the circumstances as they were, I have been discriminated against because of the things that were going on then...I could not help how my ex treated me...don't you think that if I had a choice that I would have not been raped? Don't you think that if I had a choice that I would have not gotten my lip busted open with the butt of a pistol? Do they really think I enjoyed these things? I mean, put them in that position, and see if they would have been able to do any better in their classes...Long story short, I could not get my financial aid because I made some bad grades because I suffered from domestic violence, and even when I got out from that situation, I still suffered mental illness to the point of being suicidal. Yet, I can't get my pell grant and my stafford loans because of this...let me put it another way. Because I was mentally ill in the past, and many times physically ill as well, I can't get my college paid for unless I paid for it myself...if I was financially able to pay for my own tuition, I wouldn't need the pell grant and student loans to pay for it for me...
I have thought about talking to a lawyer about this, but I don't want to waste their time and mine too if there it is legal for a university of Arkansas based school to not allow me to have my financial aid due to an illness that I suffered...any advice would be much appreciated...10 points...
All this happened in the spring of 2004. I had to drop out after that to go get a job to support us. This continued until November of 2006 when we split up for good after he almost killed me for good...I was scared to leave, but yet I was scared not to, know what I mean? Sounds stu[id I know. But in the middle of the divorce and after being put in mental hospitals after numerous attampts at suicide, I finally got up the guts to go back in the summer and fall of 2007. I might also mention that I was also having a lot of health problems during this time, as well...I went back and made strait C's with only one F, and even with all that, I thought that those were pretty good grades considering that I was taking 4 science classes at a time. But not good enough for them, so they put me on academic suspension, which I deserved...I was after that put into another accute mental health facility where I stayed for a month...I got out of there and got a job at walmart, got married again, had a baby with bad health problems in April 2009... I was going to go back this semester, but since I got put on academic suspension, I had to write a letter of appeal stating all of what I just told about, provided proof of my divorce, my health problems, and even proof where I was in mental health facilities, copies of my divorce papers, everything...but my financial aid was denied...
I feel as if, given all the circumstances as they were, I have been discriminated against because of the things that were going on then...I could not help how my ex treated me...don't you think that if I had a choice that I would have not been raped? Don't you think that if I had a choice that I would have not gotten my lip busted open with the butt of a pistol? Do they really think I enjoyed these things? I mean, put them in that position, and see if they would have been able to do any better in their classes...Long story short, I could not get my financial aid because I made some bad grades because I suffered from domestic violence, and even when I got out from that situation, I still suffered mental illness to the point of being suicidal. Yet, I can't get my pell grant and my stafford loans because of this...let me put it another way. Because I was mentally ill in the past, and many times physically ill as well, I can't get my college paid for unless I paid for it myself...if I was financially able to pay for my own tuition, I wouldn't need the pell grant and student loans to pay for it for me...
I have thought about talking to a lawyer about this, but I don't want to waste their time and mine too if there it is legal for a university of Arkansas based school to not allow me to have my financial aid due to an illness that I suffered...any advice would be much appreciated...10 points...