Hello everyone, my name is Darell and im in the middle of a predicament. This year i got accepted to the school of my dreams, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, an Honors University in Maryland. This school is one of the best of the best right now and is only going up from there. I applied early action (with an astounding application pool of over 10000, the biggest to date) and managed to get in with the less than 2000 other lucky scholars. I accomplished this despite the plea of some my family for me to stay close to home in the south; nevertheless, i felt the need to rise out my less than favorable enviroment in order to make a better life for myself. UMBC has an excellent nursing bridge program with the University of Baltimore and i plan on taking full advantage of this stepping stone in order to reach my goal of becoming a nurse practitioner and a doctor one day. The only problem is tuition; while it could be a lot worse, ive managed to lower my tuition due to AP classes and credit earned in high school; in addition, with the combination of scholarships and financial aid, i still owe 20000+ dollars for the 2015-2016 school year. Ive gone every route i thought possible to get help, though from my family i recieved less help than expected (other than the die hard members who want to see me succeed). At this point with school a week from today, my father is contemplating paying for it himself. I regret him doing this as i want to be the least amount of burden possible on my family. Which leads me here, asking complete strangers for help haha, honestly you guys are my only hope as out of options. So i ask you to donate, no matter how small or how big :) to help me reach my goal and become the greatest individual i can be. I thank you in advance for your help, heres a picture to tug your heart strings XD Heres the link: gofund.me/pkuxdjhc