My parents won’t help me with Fafsa

I am the exact opposite. I don’t let my kids fill out the FAFSA, I do it for them for the reason that I don’t want them privy to my financial information. Tell your parents to fill out the form and then you can sign it.

I told my mom that she could do that but she doesn’t feel comfortable sharing her bank statements. That’s the only issue

Yes I told them that but my mother doesn’t feel comfortable sharing her bank statements. That’s the only issue.

Your parents do NOT have to share their bank statements with you.

You can open up a FAFSA using your FSA ID info and fill in your part. Then create a key that you give to your parents so they can fill in their part.

Then…you sign and they sign…electronically.

It sounds like the parents have some paranoia about sharing their financial info with the FAFSA application, not the OP. Or they have been gaming the IRS and do not want to get caught.

No one is going to give you or lend you money for college unless your parents provide info on their finances. Maybe that argument can help. You are asking for grants and loans. They are available to students who can prove they can’t pay, but the parents MUST fill out the FAFSA. No proof, no money. Providing that info is the price of the grants and loans.

This is sad. Your parents are very selfish if they’d rather hide their bank balance than help you attend college. Tell them I said this. My son attends a large university and we did not need to borrow money. The FA mentioned that to be considered for ANY scholarships a student had to file the FAFSA. We filed it and he did not apply for any scholarship yet he was awarded a large one from his department.

The only reason your mother won’t file is either she is not filing her taxes, she cheats on her taxes, or she is an illegal immigrant. Parents are supposed to want to lift their children in life. Sorry yours don’t.

@OspreyCV22 There are certainly many people who are anti government and paranoid about sharing info, but are not tax cheats or in the country illegally. Or they may be mentally ill and paranoid. But regardless of the reasoning, students don’t get financial aid without completing FAFSA.

OP, can you get a relative or family friend to try to talk to your mom about this? Or maybe your GC?

  1. do your parents pay taxes? If so, they don’t even have to input anything, the automatic retrieval tool will do it for them. The information will automatically go from one database to the other through an encrypted system and there has never been a breach or any sort of problem.
  2. I’d strongly suggest you take the sat in November AND December. Most students aiming for a selective university such as Georgia tech or uga would need to take the test twice - the feet time to get used to the format and the second time to try and improve on the first. If you can’t afford them because you’re low income, ask for fee waivers.
  3. plan to apply to Georgia college, Georgia state, and Georgia southern too.
  4. do you qualify for HOPE?

Please answer…do you qualify for the HOPE in Georgia?

Are there colleges to which you can commute from your home?

And for heavens sake…you are on a gap year and you are just now taking the SAT for the first time? Why the wait??

The HOPE scholarship requires the student to file either the FAFSA or GSFAPPS. Parental help is still required.