I did an interview for SP2
Hey ladies! I was hoping that one of you could help me out by answering a question: If you applied for financial aid, did you happen to get an e-mail from Barnard saying it was incomplete? Thnx
@mysticalreverie Have you logged into your Financial Aid portal to see what’s missing?
@oedemuasel Yes I did, just a regular one though in the summer of 2017.
Lol I just got information about the fin aid portal. Apparently they sent the email but it wasn’t even in my inbox!! technology :((
@nerdalert18 That stinks! Did you ask them if they’d penalize your fin aid award for turning it in late?
I think it will be okay, because I called and she didn’t say anything would be wrong 
Barnard will meet full need of admitted students even if info is late to arrive, but if anything is missing they won’t be able to have an award prepared at the time of admissions. So if comparing aid awards is important, then that could be a problem.
@calmom But it says on the FAQ page “Will failure to meet the due date affect the possibility of receiving financial aid?
After the due date, there is no guarantee that funds will be available.” (https://barnard.edu/finaid/frequently-asked-questions/regular-decision-applicants).
I think that Barnard will do the best they can to work with students who get the information to them within the time that the admissions decisions & deposits have to be made. When my daughter was there, the deadline for continuing students was in June – and they don’t know until May 1 which RD students are coming – so they aren’t going to run out of funds that early. I think it also depends on what is late – they need a FAFSA and/or CSS Profile just to create a financial aid file for the student, so if that hasn’t been filed already, it could be a problem. (Barnard is need blind for admissions but that doesn’t mean that a person can hold back on applying for aid until after the admissions decision has been made). But of they have the FAFSA and are waiting on subsequent documentation, like copies of parents tax returns or other requested documentation – then they generally have enough info for their own planning purposes. Barnard does ask for more paperwork then a many colleges, so I’m sure it’s fairly common for a lot of things to trickle in late – especially for NCP information. (It’s hard enough to get cooperation from many non-custodial parents, much less get them to meet deadlines).
After May 1st for admitted students could be a problem – that is, if a student accepts a spot without a finalized aid award, that could be interpreted as freeing up funds for others.
Barnard is my dd’s #1 college. Really anxiously crossing fingers and toes for her. She did an interview back in October. I heard that Barnard has no merit scholarships and we’re just barely outside of being eligible for financial aid so it may be out of our price range. Hoping for a miracle or two.
If you aren’t eligible for financial aid then you won’t get any. "Barely"doesn’t matter --if you had a few thousand less in income or assets and suddenly you were available for aid, the aid would still probably be minimal – loans first, then work-study, before you’d see a dime of grant money. So no miracles coming --Barnard is need based aid only, and you are going to have to figure out out whether $70K/year is worth it for your family. (I think Barnard is as much worth the cost as any college – but you can only pay what you can afford).
@happytoapply – we’re in same financial boat where we’re on the only aid we’ll qualify for is likely loans and full pay is daunting. I have heard some colleges have more generous definition of need based aid based on their institutional methodology. But we ave a family friend’s daughter at Barnard and she she noticed most students were either really wealthy or had lots of aid – not too many in betweens – so I’m not too optimistic. (He Dad is a prof so she had tuition benefits.). Oh well, fingers crossed!!
If I didn’t receive a interview, does it mean an unlikely decision? =((
Does anyone have an idea when the decision will come out this year ?
@Dreamlessnewmember No, you had to request an interview. But, they really don’t mean anything in the college admissions process. My sister’s friend works as an admin officer at Bryn Mawr and she’s told me many times that the Seven Sisters really don’t take them into account anymore.
also, the website says “late march”
@Dreamlessnewmember I’m thinking 22nd or 29th
@AcademiaSavvy @brutishhyena Thank you!!
So we’ll probably know in like 10 days 