<p>Sorry I opened up an old thread because I liked the title…</p>
<p>This thread is from 2008. </p>
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<p>Holland, what is your question? It just looks like a sentence fragment to me! Btw, it’s perfectly okay to start a new thread and you can even use a title you like! It will get you better responses if you don’t waste everyone’s time by having them read and respond to long-gone OP’s.</p>
<p>^^ Do read the links about full rides and automatic scholarships for high stats students.</p>
<p>And apply to the schools your parents say they will pay for. You might be lucky enough to get accepted to one of them and if it gets you out of their house, you’ll find that their control of your life goes way, way down—particularly if you <em>don’t</em> take the cell phone they pay for to college. [Just tell them you’d rather put an answering machine on your dorm room’s phone because you don’t want the cell ringing while you are in class. And then use the answering machine to screen the calls.]</p>
<p>Also, the OP says:</p>
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<p>It may (or may not) make your life easier in college, but colleges and professors <em>cannot</em> release grade information to anyone—including your parents—without your written permission. [It’s called the Buckley Amendment, although I don’t know why.] It drives parents crazy when their kids wind up in grade trouble, but if your parents’ threats and demands occur on a day-to-day basis and are about high school assignments and grades on those assignments, then once you are in college and NOT living at home, they won’t be privy to the same information they have now about your high school grades and assignments. Your final grades might not even be mailed to your parents’ address.</p>
<p>And good luck in dealing with a difficult situation.</p>
<p>Any parents who are paying for college can lower the financial boom if their kids won’t release the grades. It would be insane to agree to pay the costs without seeing what the results are. Friends of ours were horrified to see that their son had some ridiculously low average, and yet the college was willing to keep him on. They were not told by son or college what the performance was. They finally got the transcript after a lot of trouble, and made stipulations on the next term performance which if unmet would result in withdrawal of parental financial support. I don’t blame them one bit.</p>
<p>CRD said: “Brown doesn’t give merit aid. I think Chicago has some but very little and very difficult to get . . .”</p>
<p>For U Chicago, last year it provided merit aid to 11#% of students averaging $11k each.</p>