<p>I’m in this boat now, as a rising senior.
For me, the hard part is that I am white and my parents own and run three businesses. We easily gross $350,000 a year. Sounds pretty good. But our family’s net income is just about $50,000. Not enough to easily send me to college with my sister just a couple years behind me.
How much financial aid is out there for the children of business owners? I haven’t found much. And why is it that when I filled out the FAFSA4caster, it seemed that all the government cared about was our gross income?</p>