<p>I'm an international student who was awarded the FA from NU, but the family contribution is far more than my family could afford. </p>
<p>Though it's the first year for NU to give FA to international students (UG), but I doubt whether they will meet with your full need?</p>
<p>And it seems that FA is not negotiable under its FA policy.</p>
<p>I'm a Canadian student, and they met all of what they deemed to be my (considerable) need. The family contribution is maybe a thousand or so higher than what would have been ideal, but all in all it's doable. I wish they had given me some work-study and less loan, since graduating with a debt of 20 000 USD scares me a little, but hey, overall I'm pretty happy with it.</p>
<p>Do they give international students who got in with financial aid the same aid as regular students or is it considerably less? I got in and am dying to know how much aid I got...</p>
<p>Probably Canadian students could not be regarded as the same as the other international students.</p>
<p>26K for me
yay</p>
<p>i am a domestic student............. but the family contribution is 10 times greater than the FAFSA predicted....... so i am like ....wow, how on the earth am i gona get those money???</p>
<p>I'm a domestic student, and the aid is about $10,000 less than what my family expected/thought it could pay....pretty dissapointing.</p>
<p>Wow. I got NOTHING. I have Ivys offering me more financial aid than Northwestern. That's sort of arrogant. If their policy is non-negotiable, there's no way i'm attending.</p>
<p>They did tell me that i can get a $2500 loan. THANKS.</p>
<p>The EFC quoted by NU's finaid offer was almost exactly what the EFC calculators estimated it to be...so the offer seemed fair.</p>
<p>My aid is awful. There's no other way to describe it. My parents are supposed to give up 65-70% of their disposable income? Give me a ****ing break.
I'm already likelied at Dartmouth and Cornell, I'll see if the ivys treat me with a little more generosity before looking at Northwestern again.</p>
<p>aren't they "famous" for meeting 100% of the need and dishing out a lot of money? Things dont seem to be adding up. Well, i havent got my FA info yet, but now i'm scared. This could mean NU or Indiana University. By the way, if you want to share, how wealthy are your families who got little or no aid? Thanks.</p>
<p>Yes. 100% of aid, as THEY compute it. There's no magic need-meter.
It's not totally arbitrary how they assess need. There are federal and CSS guidelines. But still, don't get carried away with their 100% need met rhetoric. Most of the top universities have that, and still come up with widely disparate estimates.</p>
<p>Dadaist, are you an RD applicant? I haven't received my aid package yet and I also live on the west coast.</p>
<p>Yeah, bigjake... the $2500 loan doesn't go that far when they seem to think my family can pay their tuition/board every year and a couple thousand on top of it, just for kicks. Bleh.</p>
<p>I also got my Financial Aid offer in the mail today, and let me tell you, even University of Michigan (known to be harsher to out-of-state students in terms of need) gave me more money.</p>
<p>Yeah, my Financial Aid offer was about 3 grand a year over what my parents thought they could afford. It's definitely disappointing, but I'll have to wait and see how the other colleges turn out.</p>
<p>my fin aid sucks too... they expect my parents to pay 2k a year MORE for me than what tehy already pay for my brother who goes there. How the hell does that work out? "lets see, you had one kid here, now you have two, so that must mean that you have More money to give us?" what the ****?</p>
<p>oh, and in my fin. aid package, it listed 12k in "Northwestern Scholarship" and no money as "grant".. is scholarship just a euphemism for grant here, or is this actually merit based?</p>
<p>sorry, i am really dumb. but what's the 12 k or 16k thing?? what's k?</p>
<p>K = thousand</p>
<p>k=abbr. of kilo, kilo is a metric term meaning "one thousand" as in "kilograms"="1000 grams" and "kilometers"=1000kilometers.
therefore, 16k means 16thousand, here, its in reference to dollars.
sorry if im talking down on you, you said you're dumb, not quite sure how dumb to assume that means.</p>