<p>In regards to the FAFSA, are your parents divorced? Is your father a US citizen or Permanent resident? Was he previously employed in the US or China?</p>
<p>You or someone else can translate and help him complete the non-custodial profile. And if he really does have no income, he can put $0 in the income question.</p>
<p>He never came to US 
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<p>My dad was previously employed, but that was 20 years ago :/</p>
<p>Can someone still answer my question about still applying to colleges that their NPCs say I still have to pay 10k for? </p>
<p>What is your question? If you can’t afford the NPC amount, then you probably shouldn’t apply (if you are sure you filled out the NPC correctly).</p>
<p>Yea I am sure I filled it correctly, but Boston University is somewhere I want to go and it is a match for me, so it would be stupid not to apply. Same case for GWU, BC and Brandeis. </p>
<p>It is stupid to apply to schools you know you can’t afford…</p>
<p>Well then that would be like half of my list. It’s not like 10k is super unaffordable but yea it would be a bit too much.
Anyways, someone just told me that it is frowned upon to apply to ED to one school and then EA to any other school and she advises against it. Should I be worried? </p>
<p>?? Are there degrees of unaffordabilty? You only get sued if your mostly behind in payments?? </p>
<p>Yea, 10k is affordable if I work for half and my mom pay half (or at least a 1/4). I guess I can keep those colleges on my list then? However, if it goes above 10k, that would be too much. </p>
<p>$10,000 per year can be funded by a $5,500 direct loan and $4,500 in work earnings. That is probably the stretch limit for most college students – doable, but leaves little room for error.</p>
<p>You may have to drill down to see if the listed costs at each school include some which are easily trimmed by frugal living (e.g. choosing lower cost on- or off-campus housing). That can cut the net price from $10,000 to somewhat less at a school where there are ample frugal living opportunities to be taken. Of course, that assumes that you are willing to live frugally. If you have non-frugal spending habits, your actual costs may be higher.</p>
<p>Well I picked living with parents for all of them. </p>
<p>Run the net price calculators assuming that you will not be living with parents at schools which are not in reasonable commute range of your parents.</p>
<p>Wow my mistake, BC and Brandeis costs the same (10kk), but BU and Northeastern cost about 20k a year O.O (Northeastern on campus is 31k), guess those are off the list.
EDIT: GWU is 13k with parents, 16k on campus. </p>
<p>“I know, still a lot of reaches, but Early Action can be very helpful.”</p>
<p>No, it’s unlikely to change your results at all.</p>
<p>BC is not a match for you. I think you need affordable matches in place of many of these reaches. I would urge you to look at some non-urban schools where being an Asian, urban, public school student will give you diversity points, like small LACs outside the tippy top group.</p>
<p>Okay, I did pick Temple and Drexel. What if I don’t like LACs?</p>
<p>Is Wake Forest a good one? </p>
<p>Loyola University Maryland may be worth a look, right in Baltimore so it’s definitely urban, and is a safety for you. Not familiar with FA there though, you’ll have to run the NPC. </p>
<p>Wake Forest is an excellent school. Did you run the NPC, and did it look affordable?</p>
<p>Yes, very affordable :). One thing is that it might be not too urban but it looks fine to me.
Any other colleges like Loyola? It’s a catholic university and I’m not religious at all, also it’s too expensive (20k on campus or with parents)</p>
<p>Take a look at St. Joe’s. It is another Jesuit school, but I know non-Catholics are comfortable there. And it is one I think you could reasonably commute to. <a href=“http://www.sju.edu/”>http://www.sju.edu/</a></p>