<p>Yes, that is a net price of $5,000 per year, which they expect you to earn $2,800 of during the academic year (of course, an actual job on campus may earn more or less than that, depending on the job and how much time you have to put into it).</p>
<p>Of course, the hard part about Stanford is getting admitted.</p>
<p>If your federal methodology EFC = $0, then UCs’ net prices will probably be around $8,500 per year (often suggested as $5,500 Stafford loan and $3,000 in work earnings, although you may come up with different combinations). Check their net price calculators.</p>
<p>Please do not rely on Net Price Calculators as being 100% accurate!
There have been plenty of disappointed posters, both parents and students who did and in March/April they are regretting doing so…</p>
<p>Check out the EFC Calculator on the College board website, I have found it to be very close!
Take your 2012 tax returns, yours and your parents, select FM for federal methodology and IM for institutional methodology. Keep hitting save at the bottom of each page. Print out the summary page at the end of the calculation, you can make notes on it as what you used for income etc…</p>
<p>Oglethorpe University in Georgia has a Japanese major, a school which flies under everyone’s radar.</p>
<p>I tried out the EFC Calculator on the Collage Board website and for both the total estimated FM/IM contributions I got $0. Is that right? I found the calculator to be quite vague. I thought that the net calculator on the school site was much more helpful and detailed.</p>
<p>With Stanford, I wouldn’t worry too much about the details. With an EFC in the $0 range, if you get in, they will make it affordable. With the vast majority of schools, the devil is the details, but Stanford is one of a small handful with the resources to make financial worries go away.</p>
<p>If the numbers you put in were correct then your EFC must be zero. </p>
<p>The College Board EFC calculator has always been very accurate for me, I have used it for all four of my children. I just did two FAFSAs the other day and compared the numbers to the FM from the College Board, the difference was about $50.00 or so. </p>
<p>With a school like Stanford that meets 100% of need, they would make it affordable as Hanna says.
The trouble is gaining acceptance to schools that state they meet 100% of your need, very competitive.</p>
<p>However, each college may offer a different financial aid package and net price based on the same EFC. And not all colleges calculate EFC the same way (though that probably is not an issue for you). So you still need to check each school’s net price calculator.</p>
<p>Public universities generally don’t give great need-based aid to OOS students. Since CA has such a good state university system of its own, why would you want to pay OOS rates to attend a school that may not be as academically strong?</p>
<p>Some public schools in other states do have OOS costs that are lower than in-state costs for some of the UCs (before aid). Examples: University of Minnesota at Morris, Truman State (MO), Appalachian State (NC). However, they won’t necessarily all have very robust Japanese programs. For about $21K (OOS without aid), Truman State offers an Asian Studies minor (no Japanese major) with 4 levels of Japanese (elementary, intermediate, advanced, and “4th year”). For about $27K (in-state without aid), UCLA offers a full Japanese major, with a richer variety of Japanese language & literature courses ([UCLA</a> General Catalog 2012-13: Japanese Course Listings](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-129.htm]UCLA”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/catalog/catalog12-13-129.htm)). If you do qualify for need-based aid, UCLA might wind up being less expensive for you than an OOS school like Truman State. The average cost to attend UCLA (in-state) after n-b aid is about $10K.</p>
Oh! Okay, I see what you mean now. So attending a school in-state would be a better choice than one that’s out-of-state. And many of you have said that CA already has a good university system. Alright, that makes this search a bit easier. </p>
<p>Thank you everyone! All your help is much appreciated! If anyone still has any advice feel free to let me know! :D</p>
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