<p>horacio79’s reasons do make sense, but the challenge of covering the application fees, and handling the financial aid paperwork remains. </p>
<p>If the applicant can arrange fee waivers, or pay for the applications on his/her own that part would be covered. Acquiring all of the financial data would be a bit trickier - especially if the “secret” institution is the only one that requires more than the FAFSA. For FAFSA only institutions, often parents and children do share their PIN information (or even more often, only the parent or the child actually maintains the PINs for both) so editing the FAFSA to send the data to a “secret” institution really wouldn’t be hard at all.</p>