<p>So I was looking at my fin aid letter...</p>
<p>The total estimated cost for the academic year is ~58,000 (includes tuition, housing, meals, books, PERSONAL, TRAVEL, and INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.</p>
<p>My financial aid is just around 58,000. Does that mean that Penn will give money for those personal/travel/incidental expenses???? :O How?</p>
<p>^I’m not sure, but the personal/travel/incidental expenses will most likely come from your work study earnings, which is a part of the FA package. If you add up those fees, it should be around the same amount as your work study.</p>
<p>I thought about that too, but my revised financial aid has no work study option, because of these outside scholarships that I received.</p>
<p>We kind of had a similar discussion on this on another thread. Idk if this helps, if you want to look through it:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/908810-fin-aid-personal-expenses.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/908810-fin-aid-personal-expenses.html</a></p>
<p>The extra money for books and whatnot get deposited into your account via direct deposit. It’s lovely, really.</p>
<p>Hey thanks. I’ll try to look through that (long) thread. 
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<p>Hmm…really? My bill for the semester is negative $3700. Maybe this is what gets deposited??? (I hope, haha:)</p>
<p>Yeah, that is!</p>