FASFA saw my dad`s income and wouldn`t give me squat because they thought I was rich...completely ignoring the fact that my parents had once declared bankruptcy, my mom has been struggling with chronic pain, and my dad is a cancer survivor meaning that that money is not to pad our pockets but a bucket to bail the…

It’s even worse than that. We didn’t own a house—we were renters and she was cleaning houses for a living. No equity, no savings, no nothing—yet she was supposed to cough up 4k/year. Her total income my freshman year was 10k.

bullshit “parental contribution” amount

Shit, I wish I had known your wife when I was going to school. I fit that exact same profile, but payed through the fucking nose because the colleges kept accounting for a bullshit “parental contribution” amount that on its face was exorbitant—and that didn’t even account for the fact that my mother was dead broke and…