<p>I agree that a NCP should be attempted. I don’t think it will work. This happens a lot, by the way. My friend, also in PA came up empty for college money for her kids when her surgeon husband flat out refused to pay. And the OP is right PA law allows this and there is not much recourse. She can talk to an attorney, perhaps legal counsel at Cornell about suing her father, but the fact of the matter is that he doesn’t even have to fill out the PROFILE forms, much less pay for any college. The situation is the same, by the way, whether he is married to your mother or not. There are parents who refuse to pay or fill out anything who are not separated or divorced. </p>
<p>Nellie, Cornell is a private school running upwards to $60K a year. Not a necessity for ANYONE to go there. If the OP got into Cornell, s/he would have had an excellent chance of having been accepted and gotten some decent scholarship money from University of Pittsburgh which much more like European university models. Had she done this, she would have likely not been in this situation what funds she had in 5299 (College Savings), merit money, federal funds and finding part time work, not to mention the lower costs of a school in state to her. European countries do not provide any more, in fact less, support for options like the private schools here. That’s partly why the private colleges do not thrive like they do here and are not among the most elite there. Very few private schools are the best choices there. One cannot compare systems as they are so very different.</p>