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My parents simply told me they had too much in savings for me to get financial aid so filling out the FAFSA was a waste of time. But the entire time I was grow
by genericuser 12y ago
My parents simply told me they had too much in savings for me to get financial aid so filling out the FAFSA was a waste of time. But the entire time I was growing up they acted like we weren't in the best financial shape and couldn't afford name brand cereal and stuff so I learned to be thrifty through a false sense of being worse off than we actually were.
It is important to teach kids to live with in reasonable means and how to prioritize needs over desires to stay within budget when everything is accounted for. It is not important in my opinion for them to know an exact amount anyone makes, but the article does outline a way the former was achieved by doing the latter.
- mapt 12y agoMy parents did something similar. FAFSA is supposed to provide some degree of assistance for nearly everyone in the middle class, and overwhelming amounts for working class families. We left money on the table at a time when money was short because my parents didn't want to break out the tax forms, and assumed assistance was for Other People.
- MadManE 12y agoI don't know that the threshold for FAFSA being useless is really that high.
- rhino369 12y agoFor Pell Grants isn't not that high, but you still have to fill one out if you want federal student loans which have no limit at all.
- zeroonetwothree 12y agoFAFSA was required to get merit-based scholarships from my college, so I filled it out even though my parents made too much to get any need-based aid. I did get some money that way even.