more tales of a clueless undergrad hopeful
I did not know much at all about the CSS profile and how it is different from the FAFSA. Come today and I check and the deadlines for CSS for both of my privates(Santa Clara, Stanford) have passed already. Is it possible I can still turn in the applications at this point for some financial aid?
Call the colleges and ask them.
It didn’t make any difference for us, we only received merit aid, no need-based. SCU gave the least amount of merit of all of the schools accepted at.
What is your fafsa efc? Stanford is more generous.
The CSS is a lot of work.
I already recieved the Santa Clara financial aid offer.
EFC is 70000 ish, it’s pretty damn big I believe(dad makes 200k a year for 8 kids)
And I recieved no need based aid from UCSD
MY EFC is less than yours by a lot & received no need aid. EA admit to SCU.
If your EFC is $70,000, how would you be eligible for need based aid at either of these colleges?
If your EFC is 70K then you won’t get need based aid, the fact for your folks though is that there will soon be other kids in college. Are there other kids in college already? I suspect your figure from your dad’s income isn’t straightforward, to give a FAFSA EFC of 70K for a household of 10. Any divorces? Multi property? Self employed? Large assets? Did you sit down together and do the FAFSA EFC? Did you run any NPCs?
Sorry it was 70K for household of 8(6 kids).
I’m the first in the family with the next one probably going in two years. Not divorced or self employed, don’t know about the rest.
It doesn’t really matter though since Stanford just sent their rejection email to me and SCU told my mom all the financial aid was there. Sucks to be middle class I guess.
Your EFC was $70,000? And you are currently the only one who will be going to college?
And your family income is in the $200,000 a year range? Is that correct?
SCU is an expensive private university that doesn’t meet full need anyway…and right now…you don’t have any financial need to meet.
Hopefully, you have an affordable option in your acceptances.