any advice?
hi! i will try to keep this short but i am in a predicament of the sorts. i just started my senior year of high school very recently and of course all the staff at school are really pushing me and the rest of the seniors to think about college. i have always wanted to go to college but i come from a poor household and the pathway to get there seems difficult. i had a college in mind, it is a place nearby to where i live, but many things are making me question that. the college is actually a community college thats connected closely to my school and actually offers two free years of courses, which is amazing, but i would have to fill out forms like FASFA to help me get there and i’m not sure if i can for many reasons. i am a little ashamed of talking about it, but my parents don’t really want me going to college because of their background financially. right now my mother is unemployed, trying to get on disability, and brings in no income, and my stepfather is a somewhat new truck driver but has not filed any of his taxes in 10+ years (long before he got with my mother) and i know FASFA has sections about parents and their incomes…yikes. i assume them not filing or my mother not working would make this incredibly hard to do. my question basically is, should i even attempt FASFA? my older sibling did go the college im talking about and did fill out FASFA but my mom would most definitely refuse to do it for me because of their financial situation (which i know that sounds weird, if she did it for my sister why not me? i’m really not sure. she just doesn’t want more trouble financially, i believe). anyhow, i’m just stumped. if anyone has any advice please let me know!