<p>Is MIT one of those schools that won't budge when it comes to waiving non custodial information? If so, I can kiss MIT good bye.</p>
<p>Has anyone gone through the process of getting a waiver?</p>
<p>The ethos of MIT’s financial aid office is that is wishes to ensure that anyone that the admissions office has chosen to admit is someone who will be able to afford to attend. Ordinarily, they require the non-custodial parent profile, lest it be too easy to game the system to avoid paying money that the family can easily afford. Nonetheless, they do understand that that is not always possible. On the website ([MIT</a> - Student Financial Services](<a href=“MIT Student Financial Services”>MIT Student Financial Services)) it says quite clearly:</p>
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<p>This is very much done on a case by case, individual basis. Do exactly as they say. Contact them to discuss how to proceed.</p>
<p>I’m one such person who couldn’t get my non-custodial parent’s information (haven’t seen him for 11 years, and he didn’t pay anything before that either). I wrote a short explanation like this by email to the financial aid office, and they sent me an appeal form for waiving the requirement of the NCP’s information by mail (I’m international). The form gives you a more detailed space to explain your situation, so I’m sure they’ll give you a fair judgment! The form doesn’t make things difficult for you either, a questionnaire, some space for optional description, provision for attached documents. I filled it up while I was in the queue at the hospital.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Oh joys. financial aid forms!!</p>
<p>Sure beats the alternative.</p>
<p>All of my non-custodial forms were waived. Parents have been divorced since I was one and father has refused to support financially after I turned 18.</p>
<p>So no, they do budge when it comes to this.</p>
<p>These were all helpful responses.
Does MIT have a deadline for giving out financial aid?</p>
<p>I believe that you need to claim that your custodial parent is widowed in order to circumvent the necessity of providing financial information regarding your non-custodial parent.</p>
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One year my dad turned in the forms in July, and I still got the same amount of aid as I had the previous year. :)</p>
<p>Just turn them in as soon as you can.</p>
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<p>Many often panic when financial aid forms are submitted a bit late, but due dates seem to express basic preferences rather than resolute deadlines.</p>