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Originally posted by AnonAlumna
I was denied financial aid during college, because (in the words of my financial aid advisor) I was white, not married, and didn't have any children.
As an RA, I found that most of my residents were from India, China and other countries. They were on FULL tuition assistance. This is a very sore subject for me.
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I was denied financial aid in college and grad school. I'm black, not married, no kids, 4.0 GPA from a top HS, excellent test scores, yada yada yada. I didn't lose any sleep over who had gotten scholarships--regardless if they were athletes, poor, idiotic, or from Antartica. It's just the way that cookie crumbled. In other words, that's just life.
When you fill out forms for financial aid, you have to provide your parents' SS#. What happens to kids who happen to be citizens, but have undocumented parents? How does financial need get calculated if the parents' income can't be verified because they're getting paid under the table? These are questions that all states will have to answer as the amount of children of illegal immigrants increases.