STARS AND STRIFE
Everybody has stars in their eyes, that they would find success in life and live happily ever after, or any facsimile thereof. And everybody has good opportunities that come into their life, all for the taking or simply letting slip by.
VRAP or Veterans Retraining Assistance Program is a good opportunity for a veteran to further his education to obtaining a job or a new career. It is a program by the Veterans Administration to provide veterans a monthly allowance for attending college as a full time student. The VA gives you up to $1,500 monthly to go back to college or go to college for the first time. However, there are many limitations and many restrictions. Google VRAP.
The VRAP program is ending on April 1, 2014 and will pay only up to your March 2014 full time college attendance. After that, you are on your own to complete whatever you have started in college. And this is only one of many caveats of being a VRAP participant. The following list some of the major caveats for a VRAP participant.
1. You must be a full time student as define by the school or college you are attending.
2. You must pass all your courses or you will owe all the money given to you.
3. You cannot take repeated courses or you will owe all the money given to you.
4. Your first and last months payments are partial to the starting and end dates of matriculation.
5. You cannot take courses that the VA says are equivalent to courses you've already taken.
Consult your VA school representative for further limitations and restrictions.
I am in the VA program and it has been stars and strife for me in dealing with the college personnel and post college personnel. For example, California State University of Los Angeles mailed a transcript to College of Southern Nevada that was a blank paper. It was totally unprofessional.
So decide for yourself whether you really want to go to college and spend all your time or most of your time studying. Or take an easy major, like the culinary arts. That's cooking school, in layman's language.
