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<p>That is a narrow set of circumstances, but they could cover other situations besides abuse where a student may want to do that (based on various threads seen over the years):</p>
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<li>Parents want to dictate the student’s major or career path, but the student does not want to do that major or career path</li>
<li>Parents want the student to attend a high-debt school for prestige or other reasons, and the student does not want to take on that much debt.</li>
<li>Parents otherwise have a very limited set of acceptable schools that they are willing to contribute money or financial aid paperwork for, and the student finds them poor matches for his/her academic goals.</li>
<li>There is family drama that the student would rather keep at arm’s length or further, but will get dragged into if s/he needs the parents’ contribution for school.</li>
<li>Parents are financially unreliable.</li>
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<p>Of course, only a full ride merit scholarship would be of use to the student trying to escape parental control in these types of situations.</p>