<prompt> Human: Context My brother is currently enrolled at a university. He doesnt have a job going off of scholarships. Hes planning on buying a car and laptop eventually, but he can get by without them until 2018.So my brother is applying for FAFSA as one of his scholarships. However, my mom is encouraging him to spend the majority of his savings about 10k on a laptop and used car, because, according to her, it will increase the money he gets from FAFSA. I know this is true, but I dont know how much extra money you would get.Her advice sounds really fishy to me, so I thought Id ask here: would your FAFSA actually be that much better if you dont have money in your account, such that it would be worth spending it all away? Or would it be wiser to save that money, albeit for only 6 months?  <response>: FAFSA considers 20 of a students assets to be available to pay for college.Blowing the money on things you dont need to try to increase loans by 2000 is not a great plan, since loans still have payments. 