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Go to community college. My little brother gets 3g's left over from pell grants and financial aid every term which he uses to pay rent and utilities and food.

Actually you do NOT need your parents income. You need a letter from someone stating any of the following conditions:

17. What if I am unable to provide my parents information, their income information and signature, due to special circumstances?

Under Federal law your family is primarily responsible-to the extent they are able-for paying for your college expenses. To determine how much your family can afford to pay towards your college expenses, we must collect your financial information and if you are a dependent student, we must also collect your parents' financial information.

Under very limited circumstances, an otherwise dependent student may be able to submit the FAFSA without parental information due to special circumstances. Before you proceed to skip the parental section of your FAFSA, consider the following:

Examples of special circumstances where you may be able to submit your FAFSA without providing parental information include:

* Your parents are incarcerated; or
* You have left home due to an abusive family environment; or
* You do not know where your parents are and are unable to contact them (and you have not been adopted).

http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/faqs.jsp
 
Yeah, which is so easy for most kids to want to say about their parents. My daughter has to use ours because we don't (honestly) fit any of the above. If they aren't abusive or the other criteria aren't met, he won't qualify either. If he's willing to lie to the govt, I guess he could but I know we couldn't
 
It has been so long since I have applied for a pell grant. If she turns in her parents taxes, or if she applies and she is declared as a dependent on their taxes will it mess her up??
 
If his parents make the cutoff, not sure what it is but I believe around 45k/yr, yeah it will pretty much disqualify grants but not loans or scholarships.

Edit, I have to add that the cutoff is relative to number of dependents and certain expenses. There is a worksheet you have to fill out to see if you qualify. It's not simply an annual income. However, judging by the way he depicts the parental units, it seems as though they meet the qualifications so he shouldn't have any trouble.
 
Sounds like your best bet is to take their examples and do the opposite. ;)

Do the same with regards to raising your future children.
 
I completely agree. I am heeding everything they have done or haven't done and doing what is as you say... opposite. The right way. It's just tough starting out with that I am given. Nothing.
 
Hmmmm, I file our taxes and I can't recall getting any credits for my daughter's education. If it is it probably wasn't enough out of our pocket to qualify or some other reason I can't seem to recall it. I'm thinking perhaps if we actually paid more than we do - we only pay about 5,000/yr sans the $140/mo we send her for general purpose, but even counting that I'm thinking it wasn't enough to count in our itemizing. If I'm wrong please let me know lol. I hope I am.

Now we had to take out a loan last year that we didn't have to pay yet (deferred) but I know we can itemize that once we begin to make payments this year and the interest accrues.

If she were to be able to receive enough financial aid on her own without us though, I don't see how we'd get any form of tax break.
 
It sounds to me like they want some real effort out of you. Its not to say you aren't trying something... they just probably see a lot of potential in you and feel like you're not using it due to being undisciplined. I suspect thats why they keep saying military.

Corny as it sounds... you can do a car wash, mow lawns etc etc to make a few hundred. With that few hundred you can turn that into a mode of transportation, it might be a bike or it might be a junk car or motorcycle. If you're doing that... i dont think they would kick you out. Also dont count on him bluffing... you'll lose.

Its hard right now for most anyone to get a job... you should ask Him if they have any openings where he works. Let him know you'll do janitorial work etc.

Young as you are... you just gotta get out there and hit the grindstone to make stuff happen for you. Good luck.
 
Rawrr faced with that, if everything goes wrong, and for some reason you can't get what you need to please the parents, I'll tell ya what. Moving out with nothing may seem like the last thing you'll ever do, but you could survive even that, and one day look back and smile. It sounds crazy but you are only limited by yourself here. I hope following the advice from the other peeps can help you get some money to go to college. If not, you'll survive.

Being young and broke and homeless isn't that unique anymore. I hope it works out for the best.
 
Yeah, as I thought you have to pay tuition or fees to claim that credit. If your child (like mine and from what it sounds like the OP would be) attends school on financial aid, that financial aid is actually paying those qualifying fees for those credits. Not to mention some are already being done away with and another one is only good through 2010 unless congress extends them. We pay her over 6k/year but none of that goes toward her actual tuition and/or fees. It helps with her dorms and food and/or other miscellaneous expenses she might accrue. So none of it counts for shit as far as the IRS is concerned. We lost her Earned Child Tax Credit when she turned 17 as well.
 
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