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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2010-12-08 11:11 am
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Unbelievable.

By which I mean "outrageous" and not literally "unbelievable" - I believe this all too well.

Short version: This kid was kicked out by his mom for being gay, he's trying to stay in college but he has no money and can't apply for financial aid while he's still being claimed as a dependent by his mom, and he needs money to stay in school.

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[identity profile] leora.livejournal.com 2010-12-08 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and it's theoretically possible that isn't the way it works. However, since that's the info you get from the schools and generally around, if there is a way around it, it's not generally findable.

But several young adults have been completely screwed out of an ability to go to college because their parents are unwilling to contribute. It doesn't even need to involve sexual orientation. Sometimes it's just a belief that once the kid turns 18, the parent is done. Sometimes it's a belief that kids don't need to go to college. And these are the people least likely to find a way around that. Certainly financial aid officers don't seem to offer solutions.
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[personal profile] conuly 2010-12-08 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
My understanding is that there *is* a way around this, but it's time-consuming, arduous, and not guaranteed to be successful. I have no idea what that process might be either.

[identity profile] leora.livejournal.com 2010-12-08 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Which means, that for most kids, there isn't a way :/
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[personal profile] conuly 2010-12-08 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much.
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[personal profile] siderea 2010-12-09 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't even need to involve sexual orientation. Sometimes it's just a belief that once the kid turns 18, the parent is done. Sometimes it's a belief that kids don't need to go to college.

Divorce. Folks forget that the US divorce rate peaked at 50% in 1980. About a decade later, thousands of students started applying for finaid for college, who had a parent who wouldn't pay for college. Some of those students couldn't even get the alienated parent to fill out the finaid paperwork; and of the rest, the fact that they had one wealthy parent (typically male) who "could" afford it, even though he had never even paid owed child support, meant they were not eligible for finaid.
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