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I fill out a fasfa every year. My expected family contribution is $69,000 per year. My parents are contributing $0. I do not qualify for more than $4,000 student gov. loans per year. I do not qualify for grants, scholarships, work-study, or anything else because they look at my parents income.

My parents are unwilling to co-sign on any type of student loan, whether now or ever. On top of that my parents are verbally abusive. I can't count the times they have made me feel so bad and threatened me so much that I wanted to kill myself.

If I could find a job I could move out and save up money, but because of economy I can't find even a semi-stable job. My employers either get laid off themselves, (than I get laid off) or the very **very** few odd jobs I can find can only afford to pay me a couple days a month. Maybe 20 hours a month total. I can't pay rent with that, let alone gas, car insurance, food, utilities, etc....I'm in Michigan (think 15% unemployment rate~highest in the country).

I'm currently trying to see if I can qualify for a independent loan through sallie mae with no co-signer and no credit history.

Any advice,ideas, suggestions, tips?????
Any useful knowledge anyone can give me?