ks2499 wrote:Princess Consuela wrote:westphiladelphia wrote:
while we're on the subject of horrible forms, have people ITT completed the soul-crushing, megamarathon Need Access?
I estimated too (at least, whatever wasn't on my tax return), and I'm pretty sure my parents made up half their numbers. My mother actually called to yell at me for putting her through that awfulness.
I am 30+, so my parents are well past paying for anything for me.
On Sunday night, my mom and I had a big fight because she said, "We not paying for a dime of this. You tell those schools that. I don't care. I'm not filling out anything--what we make is none of their business because they can't have any of it. Your dad and I are old and need to focus on our retirement savings."
I explained that some schools didn't look at it, but it was required for a few others, and I told her that I might not get _any_ financial aid if she didn't fill it out and the schools deemed my forms incomplete.
And then she retorted, "How do you know you need loans anyway?"
Ummm...because I don't have $225K just lying around. Argh. Mom. [shakes fist at NeedAccess]