<p>what if i put on my app that i was gonna live in housing, but then decided im gonna live at home and now on my COA housing comes into play and i accept an award where i have more money than needed.</p>
<p>You need to let FA know so they can adjust your COA-</p>
<p>=( aw man hopefully they wont have to recalculate the aid</p>
<p>They’re not going to pay you to live at home. At many colleges, about half the Cost of Attendance is room/board. Live at home, and you eliminate that expense, so your aid package goes down.</p>
<p>what happens if i dont say anything and just take the aid =D</p>
<p>It’s fraud. Are you for real? I think at the UCs, so probably others schhols too, R & B is more than tuition (fees). Fraud against the US gov if you’re lower income and get fed aid and against the school.</p>
<p>I don’t get it. I see more and more kids (usually it’s the kids, occasionally it’s the parents) who seem to think that it’s OK to steal or cheat so long as they don’t get caught. Isn’t anyone teaching right and wrong to kids anymore?</p>
<p>OP- you could rob a bank, too. And maybe not get caught. But that wouldn’t make it right.</p>
<p>With this one you’d get caught. I think they’d notice no dorm or food bill…They are big profit centers:)</p>
<p>=( guess i’ll have to call financial aid office</p>
<p>sblake
where do you live? up north?</p>
<p>ehh correcting fafsa now</p>
<p>'“With this one you’d get caught. I think they’d notice no dorm or food bill…They are big profit centers”</p>
<p>I could pay it to someone i trust and make it look like im paying for a room 
( thinkin like an accountant =D ) </p>
<p>i’m gonna play it safe though fraud-free</p>
<p>If they’re giving you the aid, wouldn’t you prefer to live in a dorm?</p>
<p>no b/c then I would have to use the loans</p>
<p>Wouldn’t you worry about getting caught? You would have to pretend you are living in an off-campus apartment and give a fake address. That would be a little unusual for a freshman, and give the FA staff something to look into on a slow day. Your little game could be detected with the slightest bit of checking. What if the school tried to send you mail to your fake address, even if by mistake, and it was returned over and over again, and someone got suspicious?</p>
<p>Here’s what is even scarier, you would probably get caught, not by accident, but when someone you know ratted you out. Maybe an angry ex-bf or gf, whom you had confided in when things were great, would stick the knife in your back by informing the FA office. Or maybe your parents would find out what you were really doing, and force you to go in and confess and take the consequences. </p>
<p>Even if you were careful, you would always have to be watching your back and never get close to anyone, for fear they would learn too much and turn on you someday. Would you enjoy not having loans if you had to be paranoid and lonely for years?</p>
<p>By the way, how great would it be that you had this fabulous college degree but could not get a job because you were a convicted felon? Financial aid fraud is a federal felony, you know.</p>
<p>thats why i said i wasnt gonna do it …</p>
<p>Depending on your EFC and whwthwr your school is a school that meets 100% of need, it may not eliminate a loan.</p>
<p>my EFC is $2k</p>
<p>i corrected my FAFSA all i have to do is wait 2 weeks</p>
<p>What you have to check is how your particular colloge will handle this. At many insist on self help, a loan, no matter what your COA is. They can reduce the college grant and keep the loan. It might not cost you more to live there with such a low EFC.</p>