FAFSA Fun Time

[Blank]

(Excerpt from a help chat I was in)


Blank: I thought I could still provide my mother's information, but the page I'm at demands a number of college students in her household.

Blank: The number would technically be zero, but it won't let me input that.

Clarissa Rose: put 1

Blank: Could you explain why?

Clarissa Rose: no

Blank: ...Then why should I listen to you?

Clarissa Rose: because i'm correct

 

[Timeless]

Conclusion:

Clarissa Rose is an INTJ.

 

[Haphazard]

They want to know for next year. They assume that even if the FAFSA-ee don't get FAFSA money they would be going to college anyway, so that 1 is the person you're filling out the FAFSA for..

 

[Halla74]

They want to know for next year. They assume that even if the FAFSA-ee don't get FAFSA money they would be going to college anyway, so that 1 is the person you're filling out the FAFSA for..

I hate it when people make assumptions:

ASSUME = ASS out of U and ME

:rolli:

 

[Blank]

They want to know for next year. They assume that even if the FAFSA-ee don't get FAFSA money they would be going to college anyway, so that 1 is the person you're filling out the FAFSA for..

Nonetheless, there are zero people in my mother's household that are going to college.

 

[Chunes]

Financial aid is designed to weed out potential recipients by exposing them to increasingly absurd levels of bureaucracy.

 

[Haphazard]

Nonetheless, there are zero people in my mother's household that are going to college.

Then why are you filling out a FAFSA?

 

[BlueFlame]

Nonetheless, there are zero people in my mother's household that are going to college.

So, you're filling out the FAFSA for fun?
Everyone has their hobbies, I suppose...

 

[lunalum]

Wow, this is a lot of FASFA and Fun in the same sentence. I've been debating whether to get into this world of splendor or not, but I think I'll face similar things to the OP.

(..and yeah, Clarissa Rose is probably xxTJ..)

 

[Blank]

To those asking, I do not live with my mother, but it still wanted me to provide parental information.

 

[Windigo]

Financial aid is designed to weed out potential recipients by exposing them to increasingly absurd levels of bureaucracy.

Haha! Agree 100%!!!

 

[Lacey]

To those asking, I do not live with my mother, but it still wanted me to provide parental information.

Oh, so you're under 23 and you have to file as a "dependent" student, right?

I really don't like the qualifications they have for "independent" and "dependent". I knew a girl who lived on her own, completely supported herself financially...but since she was under 23 she still had to include her parent's info. And her parents were rich, so she got royally screwed over.

I'm glad I'm a senior and I don't have to fill out the FAFSA again.

 

[Blank]

Oh, so you're under 23 and you have to file as a "dependent" student, right?

I really don't like the qualifications they have for "independent" and "dependent". I knew a girl who lived on her own, completely supported herself financially...but since she was under 23 she still had to include her parent's info. And her parents were rich, so she got royally screwed over.

I'm glad I'm a senior and I don't have to fill out the FAFSA again.

Complicated situation; my mother is a discouraged worker and had her house foreclosed. She lives in my grandparents' house while I now live with my sister.

 

[Thalassa]

You have to give your parents information if you're under 23. It's fucked up, but there it is. It screws some people out of even being able to go or continue going to college until they reach the age of "independence." An acquaintence of mine went through this. She's 21, lives with her bf, and her mother's husband refused to provide their tax information for the FAFSA. She had to withdraw from school.

So put your mother's info. It's basically to make sure that people from upper-middle class and wealthy families aren't scamming the government for Pell Grants or something. Unfortunately, it backfires in some situations, like my acquaintence there. I hope it works out better for you.