He should also look into some outside scholarships:

College Board Homepage

www.collegeboard.org

FastWEB

www.fastweb.com

Free Scholarship Search

www.freschinfo.com

Gates Millennium Scholars Program

www.gmsp.org

He should talk to a financial aid officer at his school as well for additional information/guidance. Good luck!

His parents must make a lot not to qualify for any aid at all, work-study or Stafford Loan. Colleges expect parents to pay, and usually won’t budge on the numbers even if the parents refuse or cannot do so.

Unless he gets really lucky with a scholarship or school that wants him bad enough to pay a great deal of the bill, he’ll probably have to pull out private loans, which are definitely a burden to many students later on in life with the high interest rates. Make sure he knows he can never get rid of the student loans through bankruptcy or anything like that, because lenders have the government on their side.

A lot of people start those first two years at a community college to save money, so he might want to try that.