I was recently accepted into UVA and JMU (I accepted UVA’s offer) and I need help budgeting my finances.

My mother and I currently rent a home but in august I’ll be living on/near UVA campus. Which means I will be responsible for paying rent/dorm costs at two places and I’m trying to avoid this. UVA is in Charlottesville and the rent prices are high.

Has anyone dealt with a situation like this? Because I won’t be able to work 3+ jobs and attend UVA and pay rent at two homes. My mother already struggles paying her half of the rent and she only works 2 jobs (one of them are part time).

Any advice ??

Congrats dog

What are you going to study

Stop paying your mom’s rent.

Look into bursaries and scholarships. I'm not in the US but in Canada a lot of scholarships are made available for students with financial need.

Congrats fam I have friends that go to UVA. Beautiful area hope you enjoy

Thank you I’m going for computer science!

Alright I’m going to check thank you

Thanks! When I visited the campus it looked really nice.

congrats man uva is a great school

You didn’t get anything from fafsa or school grants? You can also look into a work study job

Yeah just check your uni website, I'm sure they have an award/scholarship/bursary section.

If not you can call their registrar I'm sure they'll point you in the right direction

yea I’ll be receiving financial aid and I’ll look into work study

What's your plan for after? Are you going straight to work or are you doing graduate school? How sold are you on UVA vs doing an online school? Have you thought about doing community college around you first? A lot of them have partnerships with bigger schools to transfer seamlessly.

UVA campus is beautiful. stopped there once over night on a ride down to south carolina. the housing and everything is like nestled into the existing ecosystem it’s so fire haha. congrats man

Yea I’m transferring from a community college

Wishing you the best

Thanks. I haven’t seen it at night but I hear it’s amazing. I did see the ecosystem when I visited and everything is in the area. Restaurants, malls, etc

Never stop grinding 💯

Of course! The grind can never stop.

Appreciate that

Bunch of people at my company's HQ went to Virginia. Good school.

maybe find a smaller and cheaper place for your mum to live, that will probs help reduce the financial burden on you and potentially her too

The lease is until December 2023 💀

Dam.

Is there anyone else in your family or one of your mom's friends who may be interested in renting the other room(s)?