I have a job, how do you think I pay for everything?
I know the value of work. I just think that this is what's actually FAIR for me. My parents wont be sending me money up the wazz for college, like a good portion of kids get. This will actually set my income to where it should be, being what I make.
I don't need your life story or your perceptions of how you were raised. Reality is pretty cut and dry.Originally posted by: Auryg
I WILL be living on my own. I get to come home the first summer after college and that's it. Food and medical expenses help, but I'll probably end up paying for most of that myself anyways. I was raised to be independant...I buy all my clothes, pay my car insurance and gas, if I go out to eat I pay for it myself, etc...all on money that I earned. It's been that way since the 7th grade.
I don't think I deserve special treatment- I think everyone in my situation should get this treatment. I'm taking it upon myself to do that for myself...is it really that big of a deal?
I'm trying to get both sides of the arguement here, so don't take this as me trying to start a flamefest
If you're not living on your own now, then you're not independent. Take out some loans to start and go out on your own, struggle, and then get your aid.
Why you would even consider marrying someone in order to get some school aid is beyond me. Well mabey not, you're still a teenager. Also, after you're married, wouldn't you have to show that you have an established household as a married couple before you are eligable for aid? That's how it works up here.
I don't grasp what kind of treatment you think people should get when they turn 18. So because you turn 18, you are automatically considered "independent" and therefore eligable for full financial aid, regardless of the reality of your living situation? I don't understand how that is not "fair". Mabey you should go out into the world and see for yourself how "fair" works.
I stand by my statement of you being a cheapass.
I know one person who got married for insurance reasons.
The one marries the other because they have awesome insurance. They get all fixed up, medically, vision, dental work, and then get divorced.
The one marries the other because they have awesome insurance. They get all fixed up, medically, vision, dental work, and then get divorced.
She's actually the one that gave me the idea, although she wasn't speaking to me at the time.
*shrug* Don't know her all that well, and I have a friend that absolutely hates her. I hear you have to have sex for a marriage to actually be realised..haha..is that true?
bottom line, did they claim you on the Income tax? i'm willing to be yes.
then you have no right to claim independence. they have to NOT claim you on their income tax for one year and then you have to live on your own for a year. that's the rules we all go by.
but of course, we all know YOU are soo fvcking special that rules that apply to EVERYONE else don't apply to you.
yup, you are one very special dude. :roll:
Why do you think that's so laughable? I wouldn't want to be stuck with any debt she would generate over college, nor would I want to split up half of everything I have..oh noos, my video card
.And to SampSon- I will pretty much be independant by the time I'm in college, and totally independant by the second year. By your reasoning, when are you truely independant? When your parents die? When all of your relatives and friends die?
Anyways, I'm going to go to bed now, I have work in the morning
You guys have given me a lot to think about, even though a lot of it was said rudely :|If this is true, you are a fool, and you need to grow up. You are 17, almost 18, wait till you are 18, move out then. Do yourself a favor, go to college so you can get some more smarts. I will give you this, at least you asked before you went ahead and did all this. It's a stupid idea.
I still say SHENS.
I still say SHENS.
One last thing before I go to bed..
"In the United States legal system, there have been Supreme Court rulings that a marriage could be declared null and void if it had not been consummated."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consummate
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Originally posted by: Auryg
Why do you think that's so laughable? I wouldn't want to be stuck with any debt she would generate over college, nor would I want to split up half of everything I have..oh noos, my video card
And to SampSon- I will pretty much be independant by the time I'm in college, and totally independant by the second year. By your reasoning, when are you truely independant? When your parents die? When all of your relatives and friends die?
Anyways, I'm going to go to bed now, I have work in the morning
Nitey nite.
You've got a lot to learn kid. Look up the policies of financial aid as it pertains to dependency. It has to do with taxes, income and claimable dependents and households. Very simple, talk to your accountant.
That is the context of this discussion, and you apparently don't understand that.
Are you planning on private or public schools? I'd imagine that you would get aid from the school (at least if it's private) if your parents only earn $50k and already have a child in college. If it's public then it should already be affordable with small loans.
It's a joke.Originally posted by: LookingGlass
He supposedly is 17, you think he has an accountant?
The OP is a child, his posts reflect that.
That is very unethical and pretty darn stupid. If you must make a foolish decision find someway that won't ruin her life eventually.
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