About how much financial aid would I get from Northeastern?

Paying for College
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I filled out a financial calculator, and it estimated $0 and a 1K merit aid so I think I filled out the tax forms out wrong (my parents were borderline clueless on half of the fields at the moment and we just entered zero for many). That aside, could someone give me a rough idea of how much it would cost for me, including merit aid and financial aid?
GPA: 93.5/100 unweighted
Rank: top 10%
SAT: 2350/ 780,780,790
ACT: 35/ straight 35 besides 34 English
Subject tests: 800 in Math II and Physics
ECs: Started a book drive that raised 1,000 books for underprivileged children, tutoring an autistic family friend for years on a weekly basis, interact club for 3 years, various community service, and various honor societies. My school has lost all of its clubs in our senior year, and many have been cut in the past due to budget issues.

I was hoping to get a lot more than 1K. Do you think I would?

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Your taxes have nothing to do with merit scholarships.

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The minimum merit aid that Northeastern awards is $5000/year. If 93.5% equals 3.7 UW GPA you will likely get the max dean’s scholarship of around $20,000-$25,000/ year. Since neither you nor your parents have a clue about family finances no one can estimate how much, if any, need based aid you would receive. What is your parents gross annual income?

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In another thread, you say that your parents earn $100k. No mention of any savings or assets.

You also mention that the GT calculators indicated that you’d pay $7k per year…that makes NO sense unless you have a few siblings that are also in college.

At GT, your cost would likely be at least $20k-25k per year…maybe more if you’re OOS.

Is English your family’s second language? Who is filling out the NPCs??

How much will your family pay each year?

What is your home state?

What schools are your financial safeties (schools that you know for sure that you can afford due to ASSURED aid or merit or family funds???

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Something isn’t right here. Your family income would be what determines need based aid at Northeastern which now meets full need for all accepted students.

For merit aid, NEU awards its highest awards to its top admitted students.

So…apply and see.

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@mom2collegekids In that thread the person above me clearly indicated that “I would get max around 7.5K in financial aid,” and I responded that it was estimated at 7K. And no, English is not my second language. Home state is NY. Yes, I have financial safeties.

@TomSrOfBoston I am an idiot for not listing the income, which is about 100K. I have no siblings. My GPA on a 4.0 scale is a 3.74 from my schools conversion.

@4kidsdad That is why I said “$0 with 1K merit aid.”

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Posters are asking these questions because none of those numbers make sense. The minimum merit aid at Northeastern is $5K so a calculator would not spit out $1K. Your $7K number at GT also makes no sense since you’re from NY.

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@Erin’s Dad I am aware that the Northeastern number does not make sense. That is the whole point of this entire thread. I am curious as to what I would actually get. 7K in financial aid from GT doesn’t make sense? Would I get more? This isn’t tuition minus financial aid, this is solely 7K in financial aid. So tuition-7K would be how much I pay

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Can you copy/paste the award?

I think that @erins dad thinks that $7k would be generous, but maybe that’s loans?

Did your parents do that NPC? or did you?

The reason that I asked if English wasn’t your family’s first language because of their difficulties with the NPC. If something doesn’t apply, then put 0, but income and asset questions and retirement contribution questions should be straight-forward.