<p>I pushed FA officers at several selective LACs to give me that information two years ago, and got back a whole lot of “it depends on the totality of the circumstances” kinds of answers. Other than the schools that clearly specified on their websites how it would be treated, I didn’t get very far. Really made me pretty annoyed, because we bought our home before prices skyrocketed here – and there’s no way we could afford it today at even half the value it has, and I didn’t see the point of spending $ on application fees if they were going to look at my house as one gigantic piggy bank.</p>