'It's a scam': Suburban parents give up custody of kids to get need-based college aid

[Swordsmyth]

Dozens of suburban Chicago families, perhaps many more, have been exploiting a legal loophole to win their children need-based college financial aid and scholarships they would not otherwise receive, court records and interviews show.
Coming months after the national "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, this tactic also appears to involve families attempting to gain an advantage in an increasingly competitive and expensive college admissions system.
Parents are giving up legal custody of their children during their junior or senior year in high school to someone else -- a friend, aunt, cousin or grandparent. The guardianship status then allows the students to declare themselves financially independent of their families so they can qualify for federal, state and university aid, a ProPublica Illinois investigation found.

More at: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190729/its-a-scam-suburban-parents-give-up-custody-of-kids-to-get-need-based-college-aid

[Danke]

Suburbans using the system like POC, etc. do, love it.

[brushfire]

No sh!t... Let the trials begin. They can hang those people from meathooks like the did Felicity Huffman. How dare those people try to give every possible advantage to their child - outrage!

[euphemia]

No sh!t... Let the trials begin. They can hang those people from meathooks like the did Felicity Huffman. How dare those people try to give every possible advantage to their child - outrage!


By cheating the system.

[brushfire]

By cheating the system.

Exactly - but cheating the system is only wrong when the fat cats do it. Ammiright?

[tod evans]

Children of intact working class families must be penalized with debt for their college education while children of broken families whose parent "draws a check" must be rewarded with needs based college..........

Yeah.............Fuck that!