<p>Brielle, it’s not a “perfect world” thing. It is federal FRAUD, and yes, you can go to jail for it, if it comes down to it, or he can if the info does not check out. You aren’t just dealing with a bunch of little school papers here. If the government should take notice, it will spend vast amounts to go after piddling amounts of fraud. So please, understand that this is not a little thing. If your family was so abusive, if push comes to shove on these things, your dad may not hesitate an instant to blame the whole thing on you and it would take nothing to figure it out with computers who was doing this. Do understand the seriousness of what you did. It is not a “perfect world” type of thing to play around with. And from what you have said, you are doing this for a lousy $900 that you could borrow from the Staffords without a parental FAFSA, but legally.</p>
<p>Around here, anyone can get in state costs for comm college. Just say you live here and have a local address, and probably lie on the form, but no verification is done. Not so, with many 4 year schools. They do check it out. Especially those that have a lot of OOS kids, and you won’t get away so easily at such schools. They count on that OOS differential for budget purposes. </p>
<p>Why on earth are you where you are for college, if the locale, school and life there is so terrible? In a state with high costs even for instaters for college? Also, is there anyway, your fin aid person can get you declared independent? Have you been n imminent danger of being homeless for instance? Are any of the abuse issues documented? How long have you been going to school there, what have you achieved in terms of college credits, and more basically a high school degree? Would the AA degree give you an auto GED? Should you take the GED, as Sybbie has suggested, so you officially have a high school degree. You can say you are home schooled and have the documents, but many home schooled kids also get a GED because that is often what some place want. SOmething universally recognized. Can you take the SATs or ACTs? Have you taken a sample test of them and done reasonably well? A lot of things to think about. As for only one school having your major, I suggest you look at other majors too. That’s not something to limit your options about. Not saying to give up the quest, but the reality is that you need look at where your best chances are, and one egg in that basket is not a good idea.</p>