<p>freeshirtsorg – I don’t even understand your last post, you don’t make sense.</p>
<p>Financial aid is for low income families – not for people that cheat on their taxes. The IRS is not connected to any financial aid programs. I will admit, there are probably a few people who lie on the federal financial aid applications – but the penalties for doing so are severe and schools do verify the information. I think if you talked with most financial aid officers, you would find that 99% of the information submitted to them is accurate.</p>
<p>The programs (and schools, later on) evaluate the students and award financial aid based on need and merit. If you don’t have need and/or aren’t that good of a student why would the program give you money to attend? There are summer programs out there that provide financial aid to families that make as much as $100,000/yr (more than twice the national average income). Not all programs have the funds to provide financial aid.</p>
<p>Feel free to keep your attitude – it will do nothing but cause you problems in the future. I posted information to help you and your brother – I am sorry that your brother is just too good for the programs available and your family feels ripped off when asked to pay for a program. Unfortunately, I think that what you are looking for (a free program for very special kids who really just like to chill but whose family thinks is ready for upper level research) is not available in the US.</p>