<p>I’m going to try and deal with this financial issue with calmom via pm instead of on a public forum. Thanks for the suggestions, but I will say that everything that I just deleted from that post had been said before in this thread, so I wasn’t saying anything new. But I do think it is wise I discuss it with her 1-1 than in public. Thanks!</p>
<p>Also Sab, I think the problem with me is that I am just very detail orientated. I feel as though I must say everything in order for people to understand my situation. It’s much more of a personality thing than anything else. Ask my best friends and they’ll tell say I tell the long detailed version of a story instead of the quick version. It’s just a Corey thing, but I do understand it’s not wise when posting on the internet, but again I have pretty much said all of that before anyways. </p>
<p>You really are sharing way too much personal info about your dad’s business-his expenses, how he uses independent contractors, how he pays people, how and when he is paid by hospitals, etc. Every business has proprietary info that they just don’t want the general public to know about. I would guess your dad is no different so you really do need to be careful (as others have warned you).</p>
<p>I understand, but would like to say that everything I said about how he employees independent contractors is all public information. He posts on LinkedIn and other job boards with these job postings and it includes everything I just stated in the above post. So, let’s say someone in here was interested in a position with his firm then you can easily google his company and it says everything I’ve stated on his company website as well, so it’s not like I’m saying anything that one cannot easily find. I was just answering calmom’s question regarding if I was working with him. </p>
<p>Perhaps the moderators should delete this entire thread for your privacy’s sake. You have gained support but WAY too much personal info. I will flag my comment- hope that gets the mods’ attention.</p>
<p>I agree , wis75, that early_college has shared way too much personal info . MaineLonghorn has said though that they do not delete posts on request . Not sure if exceptions are made though if the request is coming from someone other than the OP.</p>
<p>I think sending an email to your father was mean-spirited and just downright inappropriate. I sure hope it was another kid and not a “parent”. I have no good advice for you except to wish you good luck with your decisions.</p>
<p>I don’t agree that sending an email to the Dad was mean-spirited or even inappropriate. I think they were doing it to be helpful to this family. I find the amount of information that OP puts out disturbing. Once information is shared here, it is part of the public domain, so what people do with it – or not – is out of the hands of the person who put it up there. I don’t know what CC’s terms of service say here, but to suggest that someone can not take public information and use it as they want is scary to me as well. How do we even know that the person who sent the email is registered with CC anyway? They may have read it and sent an email without having an account.</p>
<p>I do agree with suggestions to take this thread down though. </p>
<p>I find it disturbing that someone would send an e-mail to my father as it’s none of their business. I’ve told my father I’ve posted on CC. I’ve showed him my threads before. I’m a legal adult. It was out of place to e-mail my father and for anyone else to say otherwise, it’s hilarious really.</p>
<p>And when asked how much my father makes, I gave an approximation after being asked. I never gave exact numbers and everything I stated about his business can easily be found on job boards. I found it quite creepy there are some CCers here who would search my family and I to begin with. It’s very worrisome people don’t have better things to do with their time. And of course this was a “parent”. There are some very mean-spirited people on this site, which is why I stopped using it for so long. I posted this as an update and it turned into a financial debate when that was not the intent. </p>
<p>Well, I am happy that you have transferred to a school you enjoy, but I agree that you over-share, and always have. (I’, glad that you took down your Survivor audition, btw.) I agree that the person who sent the email probably intended to be helpful. You may not think you over-share, but a LOT of perfectly kind people here think you do. Perhaps you would agree that it came back to bite you in the past, perhaps not.</p>
<p>In any case, I’m glad things are working out with Goucher. </p>
<p>I don’t think that the fact that you are an adult and therefore immune to people contacting your father is the issue. If my husband were sharing highly personal information about me over the internet without my permission, for example, I think i’d be pretty happy that someone cared enough to let me know. A chat forum doesn’t hold the same rights to confidentiality as a private conversation with a trusted friend!</p>
<p>My father’s taxes were not included in the income I listed, so in reality it’s much less than that amount.</p>
<p>And like I’ve said before Goucher was affordable. In fact, it was the same price as Knox. Knox was more than affordable my freshman and sophomore years and we never had trouble paying for it. We were paying less money at Knox and Goucher this past semester than we would have at UGA. I would have never attended Goucher if it cost too much. So to answer your question, Goucher was affordable to attend. And I came back last year with the same worries about my dad making more $$$ and I wasn’t sure everything would work out, but it did. The end.</p>
<p>You will likely be a full pay student at Goucher for the 2014-2015 school year with an income of $180,000. Need based aid is applied for annually…so what you got last year, or the year before doesn’t matter AT ALL.</p>
<p>Your father’s taxes do NOT matter AT ALL. The AGI is used to compute need based aid, not the after tax income. </p>
<p>With $180,000 income, you will NOT receive need based aid at Goucher. AND some of the expenses your dad is allowed to deduct for tax purposes will be added back in as income when need based need is calculated.</p>
<p>SDC–However much the emailer wants to say that he/she was trying to be helpful doesn’t change the fact that he/she undermined/threw the OP under the bus. I think that’s a low blow. The only one who is hurt is the OP. It was a mean spirited act. If the emailer truly wanted to help he could have sent a PM to the OP. Treating the OP like an errant child isn’t the place of adult posters who aren’t his parents. OP didn’t put himself in danger-he/she just talks too much. </p>
<p>I believe the email was unnecessary. One could have easily PM’d OP. While I am new to this story, OP, your identity is bit a secret. Just keep things mum. </p>
<p>This is all I can really say because from reading your past threads I am speechless and am certain any advice would be going through one ear and out the other. </p>
<p>I wish the best for you as your journey continues. </p>
<p>OP - DS doesn’t go to Goucher but we already know what we have to pay next year. I would have thought you would too. School starts back up in a couple months…So I am slightly confused why you don’t know how much it’s going to cost for the next year. When will you know how much Goucher will cost your parents? Do you have a backup plan if the cost is too high?</p>
<p>Michigangeorgia…financial aid notification for returning students varies by college. We never had our kids’ new awards until during the summer. I know this because I always set up their monthly payment plans in July…guessing what the amount should be.</p>
<p>Ditto to what thumper said. I do not know what I am paying for next year. I know some of the aid I will be getting because my scholarships have been renewed, but as far as charges I can only estimate them. </p>
<p>Hopefully the tuition will be manageable. Also agree that the email was uncalled for, but please listen to the people that are trying to provide good advice. Am glad you listened to the person who suggested you change your avatar and remove your photo. Please be careful about the information you share. Even after many posters reminded you of that, you put your first name in a post. Please, be more careful.</p>
<p>However all posts are indexed by google and appear prominently in search results. I just googled “goucher financial aid knox” and this thread is on the first page of results. </p>