The reason your parents’ income matters is because, as a student, the government expects your parents to help you pay for college. If your parents make a lot, they expect some of that income to go towards your tuition, so they don’t give you as much financial aid. If your parents didn’t make very much, or if you were financially independent, they would probably give you more financial aid because you wouldn’t have your parents’ income to rely on.

Also remember that you can go to scholarship search websites like Fastweb.com and enter all your information, and they’ll look up scholarships and loans for you!

Best of luck!

If you are considered a Dependent student, then you must use your parent(s) information to complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). The FAFSA generates an EFC (Expected Family Contribution) that schools use to determine a student’s financial aid package.

It doesn’t matter what your parent’s make – if you are eligible for a student loan then you will receive it. It may be an Unsubsidized Stafford Loan (interest accrues as soon as the loan is disbursed) as opposed to a Stafford Loan (interest is deferred until six months after graduate or withdraw from school), though. More information regarding student loans can be found at www.finaid.org/loans.

You should talk to a financial aid officer at your school for more inforrmation. Good luck!

Good luck.

I believe that you can apply on your own without your parent’s information.

Try this web site:

http://www.dl.ed.gov

I just checked the paperwork I used. Try THIS web site:

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DirectLoan/index.html

Good Luck!