Does anyone know of a thread that discusses the age at which schools consider a student to be independent of their parents when calculating financial need?
For example, Stanford:
For example, Stanford:
- Our current financial aid policy states that the primary responsibility for financing a student's education belongs to the parent/family regardless of the student's dependency status. For the purpose of calculating institutional (grant) eligibility, we require all students that are under 30 years of age by the start of the academic year to submit tax information (unless adverse circumstances prevents them) in order for us to calculate the expected parental/family contribution (which takes into consideration: income, assets, family size, siblings in college, etc.).