karlie
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I don't know what schools you're looking at, but Pell Grants will only pay for tuition at accredited schools that meet certain requirements. If you want an online degree, you'll likely have to get one from a "mainstream" school, not from a school that is solely online.
Yep. And a lot of online schools are not accredited with the state. Pells won't touch those schools. They want to know that if they pay for an education, that you're marketable when you graduate, and many online degrees are not considered valid or "complete" by a lot of companies and organizations. In a lot of fields(counseling being one of them) it's nearly impossible to get hired with just an online education. Learning to become a counselor relies on a lot of feedback, peer review, critique by the professors, role plays, and actual counseling practice with real people. That's nearly impossible to get from an online education.
You may want to check into a school that offers some online general education classes, but most credited schools that a pell grant will cover will require most of your upper division coursework to happen in a class setting.
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