Why Must Colleges Punish Kids of Deadbeats?

Paying for College
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<p>OP, if you are out there… I had a bf long ago whose parents wouldn’t help him out for college. They didn’t have much money so that was understandable, but his mother made the situation much worse by “needing to claim him” as a dependent on her tax forms even though he was living independently, thousands of miles away in a different state! He didn’t get enough financial aid to go for more than one year and was just completely discouraged.</p>

<p>Don’t let that happen to you (getting totally discouraged). Fight for that waiver since your deadbeat dad won’t cooperate. I think some schools get defensive because they don’t want to be cheated. Other ones may just have been swallowed in bureaucracy and can’t find their way out. Do your best and claim your college education despite your deadbeat dad.</p>

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<p>Idioms are not the strong point of someone on the autism spectrum, for those who don’t know. It might not be such a dumb idea for people who have made those statements here to learn a bit. </p>

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<p>Oops … guess OP didn’t get the memo. After all, he made a comment about his dad being a sperm donor … and it was a very sarcastic statement, as he admitted. </p>

<p>Not everyone here is out to get the OP, and we aren’t heartless, either.</p>