Law and medical schools seem to, but I can’t find a centralized application for financial aid for business and arts&sciences students.
I know it might vary by institution, but can a recent applicant to top-ranked business or arts and sciences schools (Penn, Harvard, etc.) comment on whether his/her parents’ information was requested?
FAFSA? Or what? FAFSA does not require “parents’” financial information, and that’s a fact, Jack. If you’re independent, then no. Certainly for A&S grad schools, or for getting a second B.S. Sounds like jive turkey to me.
As **jaledin **said, there is a single form for applying for financial aid at any US school, and it’s called FAFSA, which stands for “Free Application for Federal Student Aid”.
You are required to provide your parent’s info if they list you as a dependent on their federal taxes. If not then you don’t. From the FAFSA FAQ:
I assume it is still this way, but when I was in graduate school, virtually no one in a science program paid for tuition. If the school made you pay tuition, it was basically saying: We don’t really want you, but if you want to pay, you can come here. Everyone either had a fellowship, teaching assistance, or lab assistance. And a tuition waiver. No one ever asked me about my parent’s economic situation.
But that was for the sciences (physics, chemistry and biology). I always assumed the for the humanities, it was much more pay as you go, unless you had a fellowship.
You do have to list your parents’ information if you’re under 24, even if you don’t live at home and you provide 100% of your own support. Exceptions are: if your parents are dead, you are married, you have a dependent child, or you are in grad school.
No, the rule is pretty much the same in the humanities; if anything, it’s a much more iron-clad DON’T GO if the graduate program isn’t offering you an assistantship or fellowship. (With a possible exception for the first year if you’re guaranteed funding afterward; my grad program, in English, didn’t allow first-year students to teach unless they were direct-admit PhD students who already had a master’s degree, and the graduate school only had enough fellowship money to fund about half of the others. But after that, everyone was guaranteed five to six years of funding.)
That’s true for the humanities, as a rule, as well. Some nasty remarks I’ve heard in the offices of my peers about people who should be glad enough to just have a place. And a mentor, of sorts, as an undergrad – DUGS said straight-up – don’t go to grad school (in classics/foreign languages/comparative literature/whatever) if they make you pay.
ETA I see the Porcupine already said what I did. Bravo! You’re in good company!
That’s for federal aid ( and graduate students are automatically independent on the FAFSA, whether they are claimed as a dependent on taxes or not ) . Individual institutions can require whatever they want to for their own financial aid programs and I suspect that any institution providing need-based financial aid ( as opposed to merit -based scholarships, stipends, fellowships or assistantships) will require financial information from parents.
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