<p>Hey everyone-</p>
<p>I am completely confused on where to go from here. I had a little bit of "eggs all in one basket" syndrome for University of Pittsburgh, but I didn't get the money I needed to go there (15,000 a year, but for an OOS, tuition is still high) and I can't apply for FAFSA.</p>
<p>Now I need some schools where I can get some kind of money to help pay. What tier should I be looking at?</p>
<p>SAT: 2280 (1480 for CR/Math)
GPA: weighted is a 4.5
Ranking: Top 5%
EC: oboe player in band and librarian for band, Founded a Speech & Debate Club as well as a GSA, summer work as camp counselor and research assistant, NHS Member, Model UN, Science Olympiad winner</p>
<p>How much can you pay each year? Since $15k per year isn’t enough, how much are you looking for? Do you need a full tuition scholarship so that your remaining costs (room, board, books, fees, etc) will cost you about $15k per year or what?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, you’ve missed the application deadlines for many schools that would offer you better scholarships for your stats. </p>
<p>Why can’t you submit FAFSA? Are you here on a visa? </p>
<p>What is your major? </p>
<p>UPitt can be very unpredictable with its merit awards and seems to be requiring higher and higher stats each year in order to get the larger awards.</p>
<p>I have issues with FAFSA thanks to some debts defecting to me after a parent death. As for cost, I need it to be somewhere around 15,000 a year for affordability, so I can pay room and board costs.</p>
<p>I know I have missed a fair amount of deadlines, but the majority of my schools are public institutions that have a smaller endowment, so I am looking for schools similar in statistics to UPitt but are private.</p>
<p>I have issues with FAFSA thanks to some debts defecting to me after a parent death</p>
<p>So sorry to hear about the death of a your parent.</p>
<p>Are you sure about this? Are you sure that you can’t file FAFSA because of debts that belonged to your deceased parent? Are you sure that you’re now considered responsible for those debts? And if so, are you sure that those debts mean that you can’t file FAFSA? </p>
<p>I don’t mean to pry, but it sounds like the parent had some kind of debts to the feds (maybe unpaid taxes). If it’s something like that, does that really mean that a CHILD can’t file FAFSA?</p>
<p>They do when I turn 18 (before FAFSA decisions are filed) because now I am an adult with personal debt to my name. According to the will, the debts become mine. Hence, no eligibility</p>
<p>You can’t will someone debts. If you were a minor when they were incurred, you couldn’t have been a co-obligor, either. It’s possible that a creditor told you an untruth to get you to take on an obligation that ought not be yours.</p>
<p>Have you seen a lawyer about that? I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think you can inherit debts. However, if debts are owed by the deceased, they might have to be paid out of the deceased’s assets? In which case your inheritance is reduced.</p>