school help: Im starting college in a year and my parents didnt offer to help, - Help.com

It is not right that the two children are treated differently, but you will be the better person for it. It sounds like your step-sister will go thru life expecting things to be given to her, but that is not the way the world works. Considering that her father is successfull she will be able to sponge off of him for awhile, but she will never become a responsible adult as long as he allows tha to happen. whereas you will have to be self reliant, you will become a mature, capable, responsible adult, if you quite whinning about your parents not giving you stuff.
BTW - Credit cards? Allowence? your nearly an adult and you want an allowence? By way of comparison when I was 16 I worked 12 hours a day in the summer and after school in the winter so I could buy my OWN car and pay for my OWN insurance and gas, and that was not because my father is not wealthy - he is - very.
MAN-UP!

Dude, you’re lucky. Maybe this will crack you out of your self-centredness and belief you’re entitled to things. I was working when I was 13. I got loans for school and paid them all off. My late wife worked even harder with a full time job on the night shift WHILE she was going to school. All anyone deserves is a fair chance. Make it on your own and it’ll serve you well in the long run.

sounds like a tough situation. i would try to become officially financially independent (at least on paper), so that you can ask grants from fafsa and financial aid at your school. it might be difficult. i read somewhere it might take up to two years. so, maybe take out loans for the first two years and by the end of sophomore year you might be able to finally be declared independent. and then you will get a lot of money from fafsa because your family’s income won’t come into play.
another easier thing would be simply to not include him in your application for fafsa seeing how he’s your stepfather and refuses to give you any economic help.
i would talk to the financial aid office at my college if i were you.
good luck, please tell us how things are going. i have a friend in a similar situation who’s paying for college on her own, except her family is actually in economic need (plus they don’t want to help her with what little they could) so she actually gets fafsa and scholarships for good grades. your situation sounds a bit tougher. i’ll see if i can find that article on how to get fafsa to not look at your family’s income.
again, best of luck! don’t give up! go to college and show them you’re independent and you’ll be a better person for it :)

anon, really, your step dad is doing you a favor by not giving you everything without paying for it. You will thank you down the line when your friends and neighbors are wallowing in debt and lacking any idea about what a dollar is worth, you will be well on your way to personal financial independence.

Were your grades good in school? Have you tried for a grant? Thought about the Military? They will pay tou to go to school and you have a job as soon as you get out of school.

When I was 18, my late father gave me $5.00 when I went off to college. He said
“I hope that this will help you!” I went in the Air Force after one year and
eventually graduated from college on my G.I Bill from the Air force.

Sounds like you have been given some good advise. You appeciate it more when you do it on your own. You cando anything that you put your mind to do.
Good Luck

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