After I graduated in 09 I didn't attend college, and I still haven't. I have no idea where to start, or how to start. [no one in my family has been to college] my grades kind of sucked through high school do to severe miss-age of school, but for the last few years I've been going on about how I wanted to go to school, so I'm planning on applying to a University, I have very little hopes I'll get in.. plus I don't even really know what I'd like to do. Some ideas have floated, none quite too permanent. However I do know the school I'd like to attend, and even thought most would suggest going to a community college, I think I'm going to go ahead and jump the gun and try and make it into the school I originally had in mind.
This is where I ask for helping hints from all the students out there.
What is the general policies/steps of applying for school
I've been out of school for awhile now, do I need to go back to my high school and get transcripts and such?
Do I apply for the school, then apply for financial aid, or is it vice versa. [Also, when applying for school, when's the best time to do so?]
I'm really just ready to mature, and go somewhere in life. I'm sick of my dead-end job. I'm sick of feeling like a child who's still living at home with little to no responsibility, and no maturity to deal with simple problems. I love my family, and I am ever so grateful that I have a loving and comforting place to lay my head at night, but I need to experience growing up, and quiet personally I feel like college is the way to go. I've always been against school, more so now than normal, due to the fact I realize, I'm most likely going to be in debt until I'm fifty, and probably go back to a crap job for a long majority of my life, but I think the experience is what I need.
I need to level up.