<p>I think spending any amount of time on the financial aid thread will give you a skewed view of what students are thinking.</p>
<p>If it isn’t a student wanting to be declared independent so their parents will not have to be full-pay, it is parents who want to claim custody when their child lives with the other parent, or students who think because they have good grades/scores, that they * deserve* to go to an expensive school.</p>
<p>Can give you a bad impression of students who qualify for aid.</p>