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Anything that does not involve going to university and paying for it with loans/grants.Join the service.Get a full time job and take a class at a time and pay with cash.Find an employer that will pay for your schooling.Get married so you can be considered an independent student 9but not from your husband).Jus t get a job. By the time the government lets you file as an independent student(age 24) you may have found an even better pattern that doesn’t involve college at all.

There’s nothing about the FAFSA that is exclusive or required for US citizens living abroad. The FAFSA is simply the most commonly used application form for student aid applications GENERALLY, and almost every college and university asks for it rather than go to the trouble of inventing their own - even though, in fact, many of them DO have their own application, and STILL want to see a FAFSA.What you actually should do, is go to the website OF THE COLLEGES you are interested in, and check the parts where financial aid is discussed, and see what they want to see.Probably 90% or more will want a FAFSA, maybe 10% will want their own form IN ADDITION to the FAFSA, and a certain number will also want to see the CSS profile.So fill out the FAFSA online. There is part of it which asks for the codes (every college has one) for the colleges you want to have them send the form to. You can send a FAFSA to TEN colleges when you fill out the FAFSA in the first place - AND, you can go back later, and add more colleges.Fill out the FAFSA. The one for fall semester 2018- spring 2019 is available to be filled out beginning, I believe, around October 2017. Most colleges want to have that in their possession by January 2018.Unless, of course, you are independently wealthy, and can afford to pay for college by yourself.Other notes:you fill out the FAFSA every year for the next college year.you can link to the IRS website to pre-fill in a lot of the information the FAFSA asks for (this saves time).you need your own tax return data (if you have such a thing yet) and your parents’ information also.It looks intimidating, but it really isn’t terribly difficult - I would suggest going through the FAFSA website and reading most of the information there before you start, because there are various documents and numbers you will need to have to fill out the form, and it is easier if you have collected all that stuff before you sit down to fill the form out.By the way - I see this idea often and it is wrong - ‘FAFSA’ does NOT give anybody any money. It is an APPLICATION FOR AID. The college you apply to and get accepted at will look at your application, your FAFSA form, all the other required forms you supply to them, and THEN the Financial Aid office will decide a) whether to offer you an aid package and b) what that aid package will contain.It could be a mix of scholarships (great!), grants (wonderful!), student loans of various kinds (read the fine print) and perhaps an offer of work-study. You can accept or refuse any of those, individually.Good luck!

Which form? There is no financial form in the Common App. Common App is an application form for college admissions. There is a question whether you are going to apply for financial aid, but that’s it.For international admissions to UNC, read the information here: International Students.Paying for Carolina:International students are not eligible to receive need-based financial aid and should be prepared to pay the full cost of attendance for non-resident students. If you are admitted, we’ll ask you to provide documentation that you have sufficient funds to cover the total cost of attendance for one academic year. For 2017-2018, the cost is $53,100.We consider all students, including international students, for a limited number of merit-based scholarships. There is no separate application for these scholarships—just by applying for admission, you’ll automatically be considered for these opportunities. Because these are quite limited in number, we encourage all students to be prepared to pay the full cost of attendance.Since international students are ineligible for financial aid at UNC, there is no application for it. No separate application is needed for merit scholarships, since applicants are considered based on their qualifications presented in the Common App.

I’m not sure what ‘disowned’ means, is this a legal situation where you are emancipated or are you just out of the house and not supported?If you are just on your own and not supported you are out of luck. It isn’t any different than any other kid. Until you are 24, you are not independent for aid and have to file FAFSA with your information and your parent financial information. This does not require your parents to pay anything. But it is used for the aid calculations.There are a limited set of circumstances where you can file with just your information only. This is called being an Independent Student for aid and it is not based on your parents supporting you are not. It is based on these criteria:https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/faf...Now if your parents refuse to provide information you are still out of luck. You may file a FAFSA with only your information but aid will be limited. The most you will get is a federal loan starting at $5,500 for freshman year. You will have to contact the financial aid office at the colleges where you are accepted in order to get the override instructions. You won’t get any Pell Grant or college aid in this case.

Congratulations on acceptance to Caltech!!! Since they admit ~20 international students per year, you are definitely an exceptional student!You will see your financial aid package soon, so please stop worrying and just wait for it. Caltech covers full demonstrated financial aid for all admitted students, domestic and international. If you applied for financial aid and submitted the required documents, the financial aid office will calculate your expected family contribution based on the documented income and assets and the rest will be covered by financial aid. (I’m sure they know the CND conversion rate and take it into account.)

If the financial aid applications were submitted after the regular decision day (at MIT it’s March 14), there wouldn’t be enough time for the financial aid office to process them and give you the estimate of the aid amount and your costs. (And at the Ivies, the regular decisions are announced on April 1, so it’s basically 4 weeks before the commitment deadline on May 1.)Students usually apply to several colleges. It’s important to get the financial packages with the admissions decisions or very soon after, so students and parents would have time to look over all financial offers from colleges, talk to the financial aid office if they have questions, and make the final college choice by May 1.The college cost is a big factor for many families. Students cannot make a commitment if they don’t know the cost. That’s why all the financial paperwork has to be done in advance, so you would get your financial estimate together with the admissions decision.As it was noted in other answers, when you apply early action, the admissions decisions are announced before you submit FAFSA etc. I’m absolutely sure that the MIT financial admissions policy is the same for EA and regular decision, but if you still have your doubts - apply EA.

If you’re living with him, is there a way for you to fill them out? I wouldn’t recommend it for legal reasons, but if you have his W2 and other information, you could always submit it yourself. If he can’t help you right now because of his depression, I would talk about it with a counselor at your school. They might have ways to work around the situation so that you can get your financial aid on time.In regards to your father, I would broach the topic of him seeking out his own counseling. Though you feel you can’t tell his friends or your mother about the situation, keeping it bottled up with the two of you is unhealthy in the long-run. Do you have someone you can talk to about this? Having a parent suffering from depression affects the whole family, and navigating your way through his episode might prove difficult without your own support system. I wish you the best of luck.

No. Just provide the information requested on the form. If you later need proof you didn't file, you can get that from the IRS BY requesting transcripts.