[quote=cvmom][quote=bearishgurl]If you already know filing a FAFSA won’t do you or your student any good, then don’t file one.[/quote]

Does anyone else have a perspective on this? With our income in the junior/senior year >$400K there is zero chance for aid from Ivy or any other school, I would think. So why go through all the time/energy to fill it out? Any reason? Or can we skip it?[/quote]

I had never thought about it before, but my good friend was bringing up this idea a few weeks ago. She and her husband make >>$500K/year. They think that their kids will have an advantage if they do not fill out any aid paperwork, and come in as an obvious intended “full pay” student. She and her husband are both Ivy grads as well, BTW, but were solidly middle class. Her husband was ROTC his education was paid for.

Her idea is that it’s great to apply to Ivies either as a very poor student or very wealthy student, but that the “upper middle class and still seeking aid” is a bad place to be.

Her kids are 7, 5, and 6 months, so she has a while to figure it out…