<p>I appreciate on your advice and how you state that Parsons is not the right school for me. However if I do not get these tax forms filled out worse case would be that I have to take a year of school, work at MIN. WAGE and not be able to go to any colleges (including state) because my family does not have any money. My parents earn 14,500 a year (too much to not pay taxes). I am graduating top of my class (rank 13 out of 464) with highest honors. I have applied to other schools (out of states as well as in-state) but the maximum amount of scholarships I am recieving from a school is from Moore which offered 17,000 per year. Tuition to Moore is around 30-40 thousand. </p>
<p>Again, Parsons is my first choice. Cost of attendence is 60,000 but tuition wise it is around 40,000. When I talked to the fin. aid office at Parsons they told me that I would qualify for more scholarships if I showed max. fin. need. So it is possible of me attending Parsons without taking costly loans out. </p>
<p>I understand my father needs to file taxes. I am not making any excuses for him. As much as my mother and myself had told him to file, he still does not. Right now we are giving him a last chance (if he’s not going to file the taxes, then I will do all that’s possible to become an independent student) to file but I do not want to resort to the last option of taking a year off school to work at MIN WAGE. </p>
<p>I also applied to North Texas and I qualify for the Emerald Eagle Scholars program (which pays full tuition ) but they determine a person by their FAFSA and qualification for Pell Grant. So even if he does not file taxes, I still cannot go to college with heavy debt. </p>
<p>At most I would want to take out a 5,000 loan.</p>