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The on-campus living is convenient for international students or students who live outside Fresno. The campus residency is expensive it is about 2,200 to 2,800 each semester (without a meal plan). When you are junior and senior you can opt to pay a 70 block ($618 per semester) 140 block ($1,103 per semester) or full meal plan ($2,212 per semester). As a freshmen and sophomore, you don’t have an option and you have to have the full meal plan. There are options to live outside the campus but if you are an athlete and have to wake up early for practice it is not ideal.

I applied to 4 colleges in total but three of them didn’t have the program I am in right now. I was also looking for a school that could give me the chance to keep swimming. I was really into something related to the human body. I didn’t want medicine because I am a swimmer and between practices and school medicine would not be a good idea. Instead of that, I found kinesiology which studies the movement of the human body and it is related to sports. I ended up at Fresno Pacific University because I got a chance to continue my swimming career and also start my college career. Now that I am a junior I have between 16-18 credits. Swimming also helps me to organize my time so I can complete assignments and study and also be able to practice two times a day from Monday to Saturday.

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I lived off campus. If you're under 21 and don't live on campus you must live with a parent or guardian. Once you are 21 or older you can live on your own or with peers. This was fine for me and I did not mind the commute.

I was given a decent scholarship and the program I originally went for, contemporary Christian ministries was offered only at this college and not other ones in my hometown. I also liked the idea of small class sizes.