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Hustle!: How To Get College Cash By Using Street Smarts
Hustle!: How To Get College Cash By Using Street Smarts
Hustle!: How To Get College Cash By Using Street Smarts
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HUSTLE! How To Get College Cash By Using Street Smarts is a guide to help first-generation and middle class parents with college-bound students pay college costs by using free resources. It is a guide that is simple and easy to read and apply. Parents can begin using these principles when their child is in high school and throughout college. These unconventional methods can be use in any economy and they work best with the rising cost of college every year.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBookBaby
Release dateAug 4, 2014
ISBN9780982025925
Hustle!: How To Get College Cash By Using Street Smarts

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    Hustle! - Paul Anthony Rivers

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    Chapter 1

    It’s the Thought That Counts

    The most important step in securing funds for college is developing a state of mind that you will get money, no matter what. The goal of getting funds must become your primary thought in the process. Gen and Kelly Tanabe, who graduated from Harvard University debt-free after winning hundreds of thousands in college dollars, authored nine books, including Get Free Cash for College, states: Few people talk about the psychology that you need to pay for college. In interviewing thousands of students, we have noticed that, along with the knowledge, there is also a mental aspect."

    You are, today, where your thoughts have led you: to reading this book. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you: hopefully, receiving money for college. Author Napoleon Hill writes that thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and the burning desire for the translation into riches or other material objects. To paraphrase Mr. Hill, your search for college money must begin through the power of thought. Similarly, Dr. Dennis Kimbro states: Money is the extension of you – your thinking. It is a symbol of either limitation or limitlessness, according to your thoughts. The HU$TLE! for college funds is all about what you put in your head, literally. Conceive a monetary figure representing the amount of money you seek, and hold it in your thoughts. The college journey is a money game. You cannot begin or continue your college existence without paying tuition costs, purchasing books and paying related fees, all of which require dollars. Wealth expert Suze Orman writes, What we have begins with what we think. Think money repeatedly, until you are totally conscious of it. Once you become money-conscious, you will start a course of action that manifests itself into material form. When that happens, the HU$TLE! mentality becomes part of your subconscious.

    Your thoughts never fail you, you fail your thoughts through inaction. Believe you will be successful at obtaining funds for college, regardless of how daunting the goal seems. When you develop the HU$TLE! mindset, you will see money opportunities all around you.

    It Wasn’t Good Grades that Earned Me Money for College

    The money I earned is what allowed me to get the grades! Ben Kaplan, author of Going to College Almost Free, writes: It doesn’t take a whiz to win money for college. That’s an understatement when applied to my situation growing up in the South Bronx. I graduated from a public high school with a D+ grade average. Finishing senior year was a major accomplishment. Still, the education I received was inferior. To this day, most students from my disadvantaged community don’t graduate from public high school. The ones who do are ill-prepared for higher education, and I was no exception. I never even took the SAT. But with the influence of my mother, who was attending City College of New York at the time, my mind was trained on the goal. I wanted to attend college in the worst way, although my options were limited. I had to find a way to get out of the ‘hood. Most students growing up in the South Bronx escape the ‘hood through sports or by joining the military. But I was too street and too stubborn as a teenager for military discipline. I was a good basketball player, but I failed to fully use my athletic talents during high school. In my junior year, I transferred from Dewitt Clinton H.S. to James Monroe H.S. in the Bronx, hoping to get a basketball scholarship. From my reputation as a talented point guard, a starting position was secured at Monroe in my senior year. But at the time, I didn’t know that being a transfer would cause problems with the basketball team. It created a lot of jealousy among the players. We had a talented team, but no cohesiveness. I decided to quit in the middle of the season because we were losing – which blew all my chances of getting an athletic scholarship. I didn’t know where to turn, but I kept my dream alive.

    It wasn’t until two colleagues of mine from the Hoe Ave Boys and Girls Club (Madison Square) in the Bronx presented an option that put me on the path to my destiny. Alex Jones and Pete Cepeda convinced me that I could attend a community college, even with my poor high school grades. They had escaped the ‘hood by attending Sullivan County Community College in Upstate New York. They physically took me out of the Bronx, driving me to the Sullivan County Community College campus. I was exposed to a whole new world. While on campus, I was able to get a State University of New York application that listed 64 colleges in the state, but outside of New York City. I was excited, but I had one problem – I didn’t know how I was going to pay for it. Alex was getting financial aid and he tried to explain to me how I could qualify for federal and state monies. It seemed so complicated. I didn’t quite understand the process. I was back to square one in figuring out how I was going to pay, once I decided what school I’d attend. My mother couldn’t afford to make any financial contributions toward my college education. She had only been able to return to college because her job at the Board of Education paid for it. Mom was struggling to care for four children on

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