Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

So i ------- do my taxes early as ----, get my parents to do their taxes and went to financial aid to see if they would give me money next year. I ------- pay my own tuition, work my ass off full time and go to school, i pay around 5k a semester and my scholarship doesnt even cover half, financial aid is giving me $475/semester next year, that wont even cover my ------- books... think i need to rob a ------- bank? Im 22 and they wont stop using my parents income to ---- me until i turn 23 WTF. ------- bastards... i need to find a rich kid to beat up... ----

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

same here dude, i dont live with my parents, they dont give me money, i pay my own rent, buy my cars, fix my cars, buy food, ect. and they want to base my financial aid off my parents income? WTF
doesnt make sense at all, if i do get to the point were i cant afford school i may try robbing a bank or some radical ----.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

I make some bank off financial aid :) Just use the parent's info that makes less money.

If financial aid isn't giving you much, it means your parents make enough where they should be helping you out more.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

not really. ---- if your make more than 45k combined they dont give you ----, or very little, at least thats here in california. paying for school sucks ass. how the ---- can your parent help, in some situations they cant. hell 45k isnt much anymore. they need to update there ----. last year i only put down my pops i still didnt get ----. im 22 too, been paying for school out of my own pocket since i started. this ---- better pay off

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

In WI it's more lenient than that, my dad makes around 45k a year and I still get at least 7k a year for financial aid.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

you're above the age threshold ;)

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

see this is why i get pissed at little rich kids with audi's and bmw's bitching about school.. i ------- asked my dad for some help because i let him use my tuition for his tax refund, it doesn't do me much good because i don't make that much and he laughed at my ass, and told me hardship builds character.. im really ------- pissed because i got this internship coming up and i wont be making ---- but i need the experience so ima have to dip into some loans for next year.. made it 3 years without loans and now im fucked

heres the part that gets me, if im working a decent job (right now), with a partial scholarship and i cant do this ----.. how the ---- am i supposed to do it next year with a ------- internship that pays ----.. ---- me ima beat the ---- out of the next rich kid i see bitching on campus about how hard life is.. ---- ---- ---- so ------- pissed ! this ---- was supposed to be fun

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

ps bank robbery= not such a ------- bad idea right now, that or stripping lol

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

I'm at University, my 3rd years. I have like... 9k of dept (gouv and bank) and I have 40k$ of credit right now and it will grow by 25k$ each year that I will stay at University. Max 100k :y With that I can make a nice turbo setup in my car. Or buy a new car... Life is hard... O0

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

oh yeah life is ------- great... O0 till you gotta pay that ---- back, i know people that take 30 years to pay off their student loans

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

I pitty the fool who doesnt drop out

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

From 15 to 20k isnt to bad. 30k is limit. Anyway, I'll never use all that money... :4

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

Stripping or prostitute,... no problem ;)

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

Um, declare yourself as an independent and you will get a lot more money. This will result in your parents making about $2000 less a year from tax refunds though. So what you can do is,

A) Find a way to get more money from financial aid. Hit up google. I'm sure someone is written something.
B) Declare yourself as independent. Get more money from the school/state but your parents won't get as much of a tax refund.
C) Tell your parents that if you declare yourself as an independent they will lose XX dollars so they should give that money to you.

As for the California bitching about school, shut the ---- up, you can go to state schools for free.

I should also note that going into some debt for school isn't a bad idea as long as you are going to enter the job field in a position where you will net a good pay and have a high chance of finding such a job. Going tens of thousands of dollars in debt to make $35k a year is retarded.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

what hold up free state schools in cali and im just finding out about this? I pay around 5k/ semester + books for CU WTF? oh i tried being independent, the bitch told me i didn't make enough to be independent for financial aid since my income last year was just a bit under 20k... i even brought her my ------- lease and shes like there is nothing we can do sir? but good advice on the google search, maybe ill find something there,

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

yup, CSU student here too. free my ------- ass. ---- you -------.

even if you claim yourself as independent the asshats are still going to want to know how much your parents are making.

so recap: paying for school sucks. that one ------- is a douche. :1

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

They can't tell you how much money it takes to be an independent. If you declare yourself as independent, you are independent. What she is saying is because you only make roughly $20k a year, you aren't automatically considered an independent. If I make $60k a year and live with my parents, they can't declare me as an dependent. If I make $20k a year, I'm 18 and I declare myself as an independent, I'm an independent. Sometimes there is an issue with proving this as people don't believe their parents aren't giving them money on the back end and just playing a game to get more money from aid than they would from tax refund(s). Like I said, if your parents are collecting money on you being a dependent and they aren't paying for anything in your life, then you should declare yourself as an independent as you are and just tell them that you need the money. Maybe they will work something out with you.

As for California schools being free, they are close enough. I thought they were cheaper than they are, but collegeboard.com says its about $3k a year minus books and living at home. I don't know if you guys are getting hit with a bunch of hidden fees, but I've always found collegeboard.com to be very accurate with their costs. Financial aid should only be applied to academics. If you want to live somewhere else, it should come out of your pocket. That's my opinion and probably the same opinion of the people in that give out the financial aid. Colleges are businesses. They sell education. They have to make money somewhere. They happen to make their money on out of state students and people that want to live on campus. They are going to get there money somewhere.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

wise words but the deal with my school is that they dont consider you independent for financial aid purposes unless you can prove you can support yourself, my income for last year was below 20k and their argument is that there is no way i could support myself on $1300/month before taxes because of how expensive the cost of living is over here...

cliff notes they like to ---- over the little guy, oh ps im really sensitive about my weight lol

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

Thank ------- god that i pay for my last semester monday..... :X

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

I have kept up on my school expenses for the last 3 years, this semester I will be done and have my A&P with Zero dollars in loans. BUT....I just got accepted into flight school jesus ------- christ 15K a semester this is going to suck, theres no way I can keep up with this on my own. I will have to take out a loan to pay for this and it sucks. Financial aid wont give me ----, I'll be lucky to see $300 a semester.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

good luck bro.. i dont even want to know how bad grad school is going to be for me.. i had to bitch for my $400/semester, i never thought id get fucked for having parents that work

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

this is why i dont go to school. Hmt has tought me everything i need to know about life.

UHMT FTW

BTW where do you go to school?

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

with republicans in office the simple fact you have any financial aid is astounding.

consider yourselves lucky

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

Dude, CSU is still sub $5k a year. That means if you graduate in 5 years, and don't pay a dime for school including books and supplies, you are in $30k of debt at most. Thats less than a year at any private school in the nation basically. College is an investment into your future. If you can't realize this, and figure you might need to acquire some debt, then maybe you aren't confident in the fact that college will actually yield a higher pay rate in the future. Seriously quit bitching.

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

dont feel like reading all the rants.. but maybe u should claim independent ... fin aid will only lo0k at ur income, if u dont make enuff to cover tuition + living expenses then they 'll cut u some slack/..

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

In Quebec the average debt for a student out from university is (couple years ago) 21k. If I make 45k out of school... should be ok ^-^

Re: Financial aid is fucking me again, college student rant..
 

i pay 430 or so for 3 classes every 10 weeks.