^^she already said the parent will fill out
Your main issue is picking schools where you can get in and also picking schools you can pay for. The visits are a secondary issue. I could not send my kid from CA to the east coast to visit so she applied without visits and matriculated without visits-- you do what you have to do.
4.01 W/3.9 UW GPA
710 CR 750 M 740 W (2200) SAT
Since you are on your own with the process, you will have to educate yourself about how aid works. Do not keep saying your EFC is 0 if you have not calculated it as such. It is a formula based on income it is NOT what your parents are willing to pay. Since you have your family financial for the forms you have already filled out, you can run the FAFSA4caster. When you get your FAFSA EFC you will know how much you are eligible for as far as Pell Grant goes. Your EFC may be 2 to 5k.
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State colleges usually use FAFSA only to calculate aid based on your household only. Now for the colleges that give a lot of aid, they will also want the CSS Profile, Princeton will want it’s own paperwork. This asks for data like FAFSA but also ask more questions and also a form has to be filled out by your noncustodial parent if you have one. So you will want to run the Net Price calculators for your colleges to see what they will expect your family to pay. Colleges don’t give aid for the family portion and it doesn’t matter if the parents don’t want to pay. So if some college says your EFC for them is 5,000 that is what your family will have to contribute. If you don’t have a student loan already in your package then you can take a 5,500 loan freshman year and slightly more each year after to cover it. You cannot borrow more than your student loan alone.
So the suggestion above to have some safeties that are rock solid you will get in and can pay for is important. There is a QB kid this year who reported no acceptances because he went for high reach only and no low reach partners (Brown is not a low reach do not listen to Chances threads.) If your sister is getting a 4 year degree with no parental help and only 20 debt that is a pretty good deal. Maybe that will be a safety for you or you will go for some of those automatic scholarships for your safeties.
So please review the financial aid FAQ and all the pinned threads at the top of the aid forums.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1486647-financial-aid-faqs.html#latest