Important Financial Aid question! help!

kevin3108
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:58:32 +0000

Hello,

My family lives in a very wealthy neighborhood (average income is 100k ish), but my father was unemployed for a good length of time in the past 2 years, and our gross income looks impressive and a lot numbers wise, but it’s extremely low income relative to where I live, and we are barely able to afford living here.

However, a lot of schools are giving me no financial aid (including fafsa) expected contribution was 0555.

Is there anything I can do? I was considering contacting music department heads to see if I can get any music scholarship as I am a great player, and is there anyway to contact fafsa or the schools I want to go to for more money after explaining to them my situation?

Any help would be appreciated since I’m only my own for paying for college, and I’m sort of forced to go to a JC as of now.