Best strategies for evaluating offers/acceptances?

Paying for College
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<p>*See <a href=“http://www.umass.edu/bursar/Full-Tim...ate%20Fees.pdf[/url]”>http://www.umass.edu/bursar/Full-Tim...ate%20Fees.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Mass Residents</p>

<p>Tuition $857 x 2 = $1714
Fees $5758 x 2 = $11516
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<p>oh gag!!! I knew it was bad; I didn’t realize it was THAT bad. This student’s “scholarship” is almost a drop in the bucket. </p>

<p>Does anyone know how the state aid works for the state of Mass? If this student gets the small tuition scholarship, a full Pell grant, and full Stafford loans, then all she’ll have covered is tuition/fees…nothing for room, board, books, etc.</p>