UChicago Financial Aid conundrum

mom2collegekids
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:00:16 +0000

*Mostly, I’m horrified that your father is not stepping up to the plate to contribute to your education if he has enough money to make your “profile” this way. I’m actually surprised more of the adults here haven’t commented on that and not your desire for a better package at Chicago.

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You’re right…it is horrific. The OP’s father has either been very dishonest/misleading about his income to avoid paying more child support or he’s only recently increased his financial standing and the mom didn’t know to return to court to get an increase in support.

Frankly, I’m SHOCKED that he would have bothered to fill out CSS when he knew he wasn’t going to contribute AND he had to know that his income/assets were high enough to demand a high contribution…which would let the financial cat out of the bag.

If the OP has younger siblings, then the mom does need to haul his fanny back into court.

The reason that I didn’t bash the dad about not paying for college (as much as he deserves to be bashed), it seemed pointless because the dad has a LONG history of not properly supporting his child/ren…the OP mentioned being on food stamps!!!

Only a NCP waiver from UChi is going to make this work, but I don’t think the student will get one since the dad did fill out the NCP info. At some point, this dad will likely refuse to fill the paperwork out in the future if the results reveal his financial situation (indirectly).