Being an RA

Paying for College
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<p>One of my kids will be an Resident Assistant next year - they'll get free room and board! This past year they've received scholarships, grants, work study and have taken out loans. What effect will the RA position have on their aid package for next year. I'm hoping they won't have to take out as much in loans.</p>

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<p>It likely varies by school, you might want to use the Search function as I think a similar question was asked fairly recently. </p>

<p>At my Ds school, it was separate from FA, and resulted in us paying zero her sr year! And to top it off, it isn’t counted as income and so isn’t taxed:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1285449-how-report-resident-advisor-income.html?highlight=ra[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1285449-how-report-resident-advisor-income.html?highlight=ra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I did a search and couldn’t find anything - what words should I search on? Thanks</p>

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<p>Found it, older than I remembered, guess I’ve been around here too long :p:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1046110-how-ra-dorm-treated-students-fa-tax-purposes.html?highlight=ra[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1046110-how-ra-dorm-treated-students-fa-tax-purposes.html?highlight=ra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It varies by school - at my undergrad being an RA didn’t affect your financial aid, but now at my graduate school (where I work for res life) one of our RAs had to decline his position for next year because it IS factored into financial aid here, and he lost a lot of aid.</p>