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<p>Is this perhaps your experience with your parents? There could be some other reason that your parents are being uncooperative and do not want to provide you with information that has nothing to do with getting financial aid. Perhaps, they do not want you to leave to go to school, or they want to to attend school closer to home.</p>
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<p>I most definitely am familiar with the mindset of low income parents as I work with many of them. Because they are unfamiliar with how financial aid works, most simply give the information to their kids to bring to school and the student fills out the FAFSA with the aid of the GC/College adviser or teacher. </p>
<p>It has also been my experience that when you explain to them what their child needs to turn in, why they need to turn in and how their privacy will be respected, many have had no problem participating in the financial aid process.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind that some people feel that if something was good enough for them, than it is good enough for their children. </p>
<p>I have dealt with many parents who feel that because they worked and put themselves through college that their children should do the same. </p>
<p>I have dealt with parents who feel that college is a waste of money and the kid should go out and get a job (especially when they hear on the news about so many college students being unemployed). </p>
<p>I have dealt with parents who feel that their kids should join the military, commit to 4 years and then let the government pay to send their child to school, because this is how they, their friend, their brother went to college. It does not make them jerks or backwards, it is just their frame of reference.</p>