Logic behind single parent asset protection amount

susgeek
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:55:41 +0000

I feel like if we had lived above our means like the rest of the people in our town, maybe my daughter would be going to school for free.



No they wouldn’t be going for “free” either.

They would be posting on here that their bills were so high that there isn’t enough money to pay the expected EFC.

And that no one understands how high the cost of living is in their area and that they should get a break (note, that I live on Long Island).

And they would be posting that their child “deserves” to go to an Ivy.

What I think is that it is annoying that people come in here and their only post is to detract from the message of a thread and start another fight about the “fairness” of the financial aid system.

Which isn’t fair to the original poster, who asked an honest and interesting question, which I also didn’t know anything about (thanks Calmom!), even after having filled out my first FAFSA 8 years ago.