A little confused about my financial aid award

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Okay, so this is what I found out when I logged into the website.</p>

<p>Total Financial Aid</p>

<p>$29,564</p>

<p>The difference between your estimated cost of attendance (shown below) and your total financial aid eligibility is</p>

<p>$0</p>

<p>What exactly do they mean by the difference between estimated cost of attendance and total financial aid eligibility? As far as I can tell, $29,564 is about $20,000 less than than the actual cost of attendance, and there's no way my family can pay that much. Are they including a bunch of outside loans before they calculate the difference? The estimated cost of attendance does not seem to be shown below, by the way.</p>

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<p>Check your financial aid summary on OASIS:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usc.edu/oasis%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.usc.edu/oasis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You log on initially with your USC ID and your password is your birthdate (MMDDYY). It will immediately ask you to change you password.</p>

<p>Once you are in, click on "Financial Aid Summary" under the Financial Information section. This seems to be more accurate than the one on the information gateway.</p>