Can anyone give me any advice?

Thank you all so much for your quick responses! I really do appreciate it! :smiley:

@Madison85

I’m so sorry, but apparently according to a friend I miscalculated the total cost of tuition, board, etc. :frowning: The tuition is about $37,000 excluding campus room costs (about $12,000, in which I will likely commute since the school isn’t too far from where I live)

This school was considered one of my safeties (It has the dual degree program I want). But I was interested in getting a bit more aid in case the other schools I applied to end up not giving me a lot of aid due to my status…

(For stats, I am currently in the top 10% of my grade, I have a lot of extracurriculars/volunteer hours, and I have a 28 ACT score (This part wasn’t as good haha))

@thumper1

When I do search up aid on the website, most of what pops up is a few scholarships that is available (to both international and U.S. citizen students… I do plan on applying but I heard from a few friends that mostly U.S. citizen students win them so I can’t fully depend on these scholarships for aid.) and FAFSA stuff (idk why this pops up though since we can’t even use it haha)
The $23,000 I received was a merit award based on my academics. They said that it is their school’s most generous award. So do you think they’re gonna be a bit reluctant to give me a bit more aid since they already gave me one of their biggest scholarships?

@3puppies

Should I set up an appointment with the financial aid officer near the end of the year when I have to make my decision as to whether or not I will attend the school? Or should I do it right away? (Cause according to what my Guidance Counselor said, she said that schools generally have a set amount of money that they can give out to students for aid. I don’t want to ask them too late in which they ran out of money to give out more money?)
Also (sorry about this), but what is a NPC? (Sorry if this is such a stupid question haha)