<p>NU still offer financial aid for the applicant who are off the waitlist???</p>
<p>They might, but from what I’ve heard from my RD friends, they’re pretty stingy when it comes to aid.</p>
<p>They’ll meet 100% of demonstrated aid, so ‘stingy’ is relative. I don’t think the packages RD people are getting is in any way indicative of whether waitlisted students will receive aid.</p>
<p>I would shoot an e-mail to the financial aid office, they probably get this question a lot and would know for sure.</p>
<p>YeS!(Short answer)…My DD was accepted off the waitlist. Your financial aid package will be based on need-not when you are accepted.</p>
<p>Yes, waitlist people will get aid just like everyone else.</p>
<p>Just wanted to refute that Northwestern was “stingy” with financial aid. They met our family’s demonstrated need (EFC) based on FAFSA, etc with scholarships. Other schools met need with additional loans.
Unfortunately, next year when our son is out of college, our need (EFC) would double and so NU is not affordable for our family.</p>
<p>they met my EFC exactly too. and i’ll graduate with 16k in debt.</p>
<p>What does it mean when people say ‘they met my EFC’?</p>
<p>Northwestern took me off the waitlist and gave me the best package of all schools i was accepted to.</p>
<p>@ stockmom
It means that they offer in grants and scholarships the full cost of attendatance minus your expected family contribution (efc) from fafsa. By doing so they supposedly meet your need 100%</p>
<p>My comment about them being stingy comes from three of my friends who applied RD and received financial aid. The aid from Northwestern was mostly loans, while aid from Cornell (for example) was mostly in grants.</p>