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11-14-2009, 11:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | | FAFSA Rant
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FAFSA is a sick joke and I (and other students) are the punch line. Originally the federal government stated that I had 15,000 a year to contribute to my education, from effing where? So after filing for special circumstance 4 times (it got 'lost' the first 3 times) multiple PIN duplicate requests. All I got was: a headache, high blood pressure, and a nervous twitch. What I did not get: money.
This country is doomed. I pray they (the govt.) don't start administering health care.
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11-14-2009, 11:49 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | heh heh, my expected family contribution was $35,000 a year
forget the fafsa, just apply for private scholarships.
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11-14-2009, 11:49 PM
| | | | Dude, I think you're confused.
Her name is spelled F-A-S-S-A. |
11-15-2009, 12:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by IconBasser heh heh, my expected family contribution was $35,000 a year
| Well I'm a single non dependant so 15k is a lot for me. Quote:
Originally Posted by Joey3313 Dude, I think you're confused.
Her name is spelled F-A-S-S-A. | Well played sir.
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11-15-2009, 12:04 AM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | hm... so... 35,000 a year to contribute to Fassa? 
oh man, I don't even wanna go there...
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese It is never the duty of the oppressed to make a bigot feel comfortable. | |
11-15-2009, 12:06 AM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMan118 Well I'm a single non dependant so 15k is a lot for me.
| oh, you misunderstood me, my heh heh wasn't a "look at this guy complaining, I've got to pay more" laugh, it was a cynical "yeah, I got hosed as well, we share a mutual loathing of the FAFSA" chuckle.
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese It is never the duty of the oppressed to make a bigot feel comfortable. | |
11-15-2009, 12:17 AM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Yes, FAFSA sucks. |
11-15-2009, 12:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by IconBasser oh, you misunderstood me, my heh heh wasn't a "look at this guy complaining, I've got to pay more" laugh, it was a cynical "yeah, I got hosed as well, we share a mutual loathing of the FAFSA" chuckle. | Oh. Well I didn't want you to think i was getting off easy is all. 
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11-15-2009, 09:31 AM
| | | | Ugg, filling out the FAFSA was such a pain in the ass, and I didn't sleep well every year until I got the paper in the mail stating my award amount. I grew up very modestly and got to go to a state school paid totally by grants, so I'm not complaining about the opportunity FAFSA gave me. I just hated the process of filling it out and the worry that something was going to get screwed up, thus preventing me from going to college that year.
Due to taking an assistanceship, working other jobs, and making decent coin by gigging, I didn't really have to worry about FAFSA as a grad student. I only took a little bit of a Stafford loan as a grad student because I needed to buy a new car one semester.
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11-15-2009, 09:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | FAFSA sucks. Luckily I'm done asking for money. Now they're asking for it back 
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11-15-2009, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New City, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMan118 Well I'm a single non dependant so 15k is a lot for me. | Take out loans. Don't want to take out loans? Then don't go to college.
Toughen up, this is life.
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11-15-2009, 09:50 AM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | It sucks but it's also one of the many unpleasant things on the long road towards getting an education. In the end, you'll be better off for doing it, just like the rest of us have.
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11-15-2009, 10:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: under a palm tree sippin pepsi | | | forget college. get you a job with your name on your shirt. work hard bust your back ,be always in pain by the time your in your late 40s. that way you wont have to pay back any loans.
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11-15-2009, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Unrepresented It sucks but it's also one of the many unpleasant things on the long road towards getting an education. In the end, you'll be better off for doing it, just like the rest of us have. | It sounds played out, but it really is an investment in your future. Dropping this sort of coin on an education makes you far more valuable to companies in the future, therefore more than paying for itself. I think I calculated four years of my education would start to pay for itself within eight years.
It's a pain in the butt, especially the FAFSA, but is entirely worth it. Unfortunately these days it's not uncommon to be $100k in debt before starting a career.
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11-15-2009, 10:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | Yeah we've had a lot of issues with the equivalent SLC (Student Loans Company) here. Over 100,000 people had their student loans messed right up and some are still waiting. Being a continuing student helped me, I could do all mine online.
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11-15-2009, 10:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | | academic education is free...it's called a library. |
11-15-2009, 10:30 AM
| | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tplyons It sounds played out, but it really is an investment in your future. Dropping this sort of coin on an education makes you far more valuable to companies in the future, therefore more than paying for itself. I think I calculated four years of my education would start to pay for itself within eight years.
It's a pain in the butt, especially the FAFSA, but is entirely worth it. Unfortunately these days it's not uncommon to be $100k in debt before starting a career. | Not only that but it makes you a better citizen in general. Quote:
Originally Posted by stevetx19 academic education is free...it's called a library. | Put that on your resume, see where it gets you.
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11-15-2009, 11:23 AM
|  | Monster Mike | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TrooperFarva Take out loans. Don't want to take out loans? Then don't go to college.
Toughen up, this is life. | Or just be smart enough to have the school pay you to go.
Just go retake your entrance test, ACT, SAT, whatever, until you hit 95th pecentile or so, any state university will give you a full ride for that. |
11-15-2009, 11:54 AM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dullsilver_mike Or just be smart enough to have the school pay you to go.
Just go retake your entrance test, ACT, SAT, whatever, until you hit 95th pecentile or so, any state university will give you a full ride for that. |
psh... I scored in the 97th percentile of the SAT, and I got exactly ZERO dollars in financial aid from Cal-State Fullerton.
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11-15-2009, 12:14 PM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Does FAFSA keep you from applying from student loans, or are you just trying to go to college on someone else's dime?
I didn't qualify for student aid when I went to college. I got a job and student loans. You do what you have to do to keep from getting a job with you name sewed on your shirt.
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