Awful Financial Aid

<p>All I was offered was government loans, high interest rates. Luckily I recieved external interest free loans and scholarships. I looked at the fin aid website and couldn't find any scholarships for students who are current students. Why is financial aid so bad for Out of State Students at Nebraska?</p>

<p>The scholarships for current students are done through the individual colleges and majors. There's something you can fill out on blackboard to say that you want to be considered for scholarships As far as I can tell, at least in A&S, since they don't require essays or anything, that it must be all based on GPA. Actually now that I think about it there are some for A&S that do require at least letters of rec. I remember an Associate Dean telling me that they often have a hard time getting enough applications. The tough part for freshman is that the apps are usually due by the end of January, so you have to use a first semester prof for the letters which can be intimidating. </p>

<p>A&S unfortunately, b/c it's the biggest college also seems to have less scholarship money than some of the others. I think part of this is due to the lack of a real strong identification that goes on w/i A&S. Most CBA majors seem to be more connected with CBA than do most A&S majors (part of this may be due to the wide spread of A&S majors, as well as CBA and other colleges heavily populating a few buildings while A&S is spread all over). Lack of connection = less money donated to endow professorships or scholarships. </p>

<p>I think that UNL does an okay job with scholarship money for OOS students compared to some its peers with the Beadle scholarships and the "new nebraskan" scholarships that fall in with the Beadle to make up the difference btw in-state and out of state tuition.</p>

<p>However, for in-state students, it's almost unfair to those OOSers who get the full Beadle scholarships. Usually if you get a beadle than you likely would have been competitive for a Regents (full tuition) and a Peter Kiewit scholarship (also full tuition) there are a ton of (well not a ton but many) people with both who are getting paid to go to school.</p>

<p>I was pretty much screwed b/c KU gives most of it's money to OOSers, while Nebraska to in-state students.</p>