<p>$24K in grants? That sounds awesome. I wish my financial aid package is as good as that, if not better. I don't mind the loans, but I do mind if I get $25K in loans like what UW gave me in their award. I haven't received my financial aid package yet. But I haven't received my acceptance letter in the mail as well...I live in the Philippines. So it'll probably come in a week or two. :(</p>
<p>I got an email from AccessUVA saying I don't have to pay the $250 deposit so that seems like a good sign. I'm definitely going to UVA!! .. Well, if I get a good financial aid package.</p>
<p>I got a strong package from VT (they technically met 200% of my need, but my EFC is wayyyyy higher than what we can afford to pay and they might have noticed that) I am anxious to compare packages</p>
<p>I'm still waiting on my financial aid package and I'm in-state!!! It seems odd that some received their financial aid package as early as Thursday and that I'm still waiting... </p>
<p>However, I did receive a letter from the Office of the President today congratulating me on my acceptance and saying that he looked forward to greeting me in the fall. Did everyone else receive that today or earlier?</p>
<p>uva2011: I am in the exact same situation as you. UVa will tell us if we missed anything right? I'm thinking it's the postal services' problem. I'm from C'ville and I haven't gotten the finaid supposedly sent out 4/4 while I got the President's letter the day after the date on that letter. Another person from C'ville has gotten their finaid. Who knows. Postals like certain neighborhoods over others :p Haha... just kidding</p>
<p>100% need met is a lie. :(
talked to a financial office rep today during the DOTL. She told me my bro, who is studying in a foreign country, does not qualify as another student in college, according to the federal law. This federal law magically does not apply to W&M etc for 5 schools. :(</p>
<p>how can my family pay for both children while UVa is costing my family twice the income??</p>
<p>That's awful news IhateCR... are you saying that W&M and 5 other schools do consider the impact that your brother's foreign studies take on your parent's wallet but UVA does not? </p>
<p>After much wishing & hoping...and finally calling the Financial Aid folks, it appears that UVa is not quite affordable for our family. Too much of the aid offered is in the form of loans.
There comes a point when you have to say you've done all you can do...and ask your D to try & get excited about her second choice school (highly regarded southern school)...but it's tough to give up your dream.
We will try to put the best face on it and realize that we're blessed to have been offered enough aid at her #2 school to make it possible to enroll and we know that she will do well there.<br>
We thank Dean J for keeping us calm throughout this process and we thank the University for naming her an Echols Scholar (that was a happy trip to the mailbox!).
Best of luck to all who are able to enroll this fall. My D says this is a very special place. We'll be thinking about UVa for Graduate School!
To those lucky few who were named Jefferson Scholars, I really hope you make the most of what you've been given. You are a fortunate group.
This is a great website, and I appreciate all the information we've received here.
Thanks again.</p>
<p>OK, i just called up UVa to see what was going on and the school lost a form that I sent them, but recieved some forms that i sent in the same mailing. The moronic school did not tell me they were missing forms and the financial aid lady was really rude.</p>
<p>I shouldn't be at a loss because some idiot misplaced confidential documents, for all I know some Albanian janitor could be running around with my Social Security number. If I don't get decent aid the school is really going to hear it from me.</p>
<p>Just a heads up, UVa has mail room mongoloids.</p>
<p>Yep, I just called too MDT89 and got a similar response, but the lady was accommodating. She said that we wont be at a loss because the UFAA is missing, it just delays when we get it.</p>
<p>I'll be considerably angry if I get a package full of loans because of this though...</p>
<p>Ouch Ouch Ouch!! I'm not sure who got slammed more here: you by UVA for losing your forms, or UVA by your post!<br>
On the lost form: it may have been stuck to a cover sheet or misfiled and ultimately thrown away on accident. Or maybe someone else was supposed to file it, never did, and it fell off the face of the Earth. Who knows, but that's really sucky news to find out that you might not get the best aid because someone else messed up. As for the rudeness, they're probably recieving a million calls a day about aid, and my guess is that a good percentage of those calls are angry calls from parents asking why their little Susie or Johnny didn't recieve more aid and thus can't attend.<br>
As for your SSN, I wouldn't worry too much about it, since the most likely cause for demise of your application was that it was thrown away. If you're really nervous, call them back and ask specifically what was on that sheet, and if private info was on the form, then keep a close watch out for identity theft. While I doubt this will happen, it's never wrong to be cautious.
As for decent aid, hopefully they'll let you re-submit your form and give you fair aid. But since packages have already gone out, there might be less than you would have recieved, but I'm sure they have policies about what to do for these situations.</p>
<p>Just remember, stuff happens, and people make mistakes. On a brighter note, be glad they lost your aid stuff and not something from your actual application!</p>
<p>PS- loans are not a horrible thing, especially if you're IS. I have about $2K a year in loans (and that's the full amount they'd give me) which will be easy to pay off post-graduation (especially with engineering, ehiunno), and it makes a small dent on tuition for my parents. While my parents could easily finance my college education with full tuition, they actually made a deal with me: as long as I don't get any Cs (well, my dad says as long as I maintain a 3.0, since engineering is a bit tough..mom says Cs), they'll pay off my loans. Otherwise, I foot the bill.<br>
So, small loans are not a bad thing at all. They give you incentive to a) work hard to try to get scholarships b) find a job post-grad so you can pay them off. And with IS tuition, you'll get minimal loans that arn't too hard to pay off, but will help make the college payments a bit easier. And heck, you could even reason with your parents and make a deal like I have with my parents =P</p>
<p>shoebox, 2k a year in loans is nothing I would be worried about. My problem is that my EFC is way higher than my family can contribute. Even if my need was met 100% with grants, we would still have to take out at least 5k a year in loans from another source (and thats with me working a full time summer job, and possibly with a school year job as well), so a package full of loans would screw me over...</p>
<p>I would be perfectly content if all I had to take out was 5k a year in loans, but with the package I got from VT, UVa wouldn't really be an option for my family if I had much more than that. 7k a year after inflation and interest comes out to approximately 1 cheap BMW :-p.</p>
<p>I decided to call up the UVA financial aid office today to see why I have not received my financial aid letter yet. I found out that they were missing a form - a form that they never even told me I had to fill out. I sent my FAFSA and the University Financial Aid Application and my parent's tax papers and W-2s by the priority filing date. I even called the financial aid office the Tuesday after I found out I was accepted to ask if they had everything they needed from me to make a financial aid judgment and they said they did. </p>
<p>I call today and they say "We are missing a form"... gee thanks for sending me a letter or e-mail telling me you were missing a form. Oh wait you didn't!!! </p>
<p>I'm not angry that I have to fill out another form but rather that they never sent me a letter, an e-mail, anything telling me that they were missing something!</p>
<p>their calculation of family contribution is so weird.
btw is in state tuition the same as OOS tuition? From the Financial aid session i went to on the DOTL, i got some handouts of what is going on in financial aid calculation. Everyone takes his/her 6000 loan, and pays the EFC, and the rest are grants. so what is the difference?</p>
<p>No. OOS tuition is much more than IS, since VA taxes "fund" the public schools, thus residents pay less. So, IS students would most likely get less loans, because $6K in loans is about 3/4 of IS tuition haha versus about 1/4 of OOS tutition. For my IS tuition (only a few hundred less than UVAs) I get ~$1K in loans, rest is EFC.</p>
<p>I get 6000 loan though.
the flow (the way I interpret from both the financial aid director and counselor) is: Tuition - EFC - Loan(Work and Study) = grant
and everyone takes 6k loan.</p>
<p>at least it is for me.
they said unless you are the "UVA low-income", you got to take the 6k loan anyway, no matter your EFC is JUST above their "low-income standard" or 13573.
If you are the "UVA low-income", you got some loan taken off.</p>
<p>correct me please because i hope this is wrong.</p>
<p>IhateCR:
This is precisely the way it went for our D. Unfortunately, the annual expense plus the $24,000 in loans upon graduation were more than we could handle.
I hope it works out okay for you. Good luck. I'm sure it's a terrific place for serious students.</p>
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Sounds to me like they hadn't gotten to your file yet and your call prompted them to pull it up.</p>
<p>All the admission deans spent a few hours over at Student Financial Services last night calling students to let them know what they were missing and/or to give them a heads up on what they could expect in their package (both our staffs are small, so we band together to get to more students more quickly). It's slow going and there's an odd form that's required if you didn't file taxes, called a non-tax filer form. It you didn't work or didn't work enough to file taxes, you might just assume there's no action required, but there's a form that you need to declare you lack of work.</p>
<p>Silly, I know, but there's a lot of government paperwork like that.</p>