<p>So I just got my acceptance for Simmons, and I'm pretty excited! Anyone else hearing back as well? They basically gave me a full ride so it's looking like a top choice at this point :D</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten word yet. Was it in a letter or online? I really hope I get accepted to Simmons, seeing as I’ve just been rejected from my ultimate dream schools this week.</p>
<p>My D letter came in the mail a number of weeks ago with the financial offer following it by several weeks.
Best of luck to everyone :)</p>
<p>So I’ve never been there or know very much about it, I applied because I liked the idea of an all women’s school as well that it was in Boston. Have either of you guys visited? I was also accepted to BC but Simmons will be a lot better financially.</p>
<p>Nah, I’m in AZ so I can’t really visit any of the schools I applied to back east. 
I’ve been to Boston before and fell in love with the city, and I do love the women’s college aspect of it. If I get accepted hopefully I’ll plan a trip to visit Simmons and a few others before making my final decision.
I applied in late December, so I hope I get a letter of some sort soon!</p>
<p>I applied around then too and just heard back last week so you should be getting it soon!</p>
<p>I got it today!! I’m in! I hope hope hope I get enough financial aid because this is my top choice now of the schools I was accepted to.</p>
<p>yay congrats barefootJ!!!</p>
<p>My daughter got her acceptance letter last week, a lovely letter, with stickers and a banner, and a very cute video on facebook. It was all very nice. She did get a scholarship offer, but not as good as she would need to make it work. A little disappointing, but she did get accepted to another school that did make a very generous offer and it is a school she loves, so she is ok. I would have loved to see her go to Simmons, but she would come out of there over $100,000 in debt, because we are not wealthy and she would have to have serious student loans. It is a beautiful school, any girl would have lucky to go there, I think.</p>
<p>Actually, once we really looked at her offer, it would not be $100k in loans, but we would end up having to take out some personal loans for her just to help her pay for housing. It was a nice offer really, to pay for about half of the tuition, just the housing puts it way over the top for us. Unfortunately. Simmons was not her top pick, but she did love it and would have been happy to go there, but she got a much better offer from Rollins College, which is local and she can live at home (trust me, she is not happy about that) and afford it. I’m bummed, I wanted her to live in a dorm and have the true college experience of that, but we just can’t afford the housing. Good luck to all who are going to Simmons…it is a beautiful college, I just love it! Would have been a perfect fit for my daughter too.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear she won’t be able to go. I don’t have a good feeling about the financial letter because my merit scholarship there was WAY less than the ones I got at other (similarly priced) schools. Unless they give me a huge need-based grant, Simmons just won’t be possible because my family can’t pay. I haven’t won any outside scholarships I applied for. My family will do anything in their power to help me go where I want, but taking on too much in loans is ridiculous when other schools have offered me GREAT f.a. packages.
But what am I saying? I haven’t even gotten the letter yet! :P</p>
<p>barefoot - I hope you get a better FA offer. The acceptance package from Simmons was hands down the best one she got. It was in a nice, very classy looking folder, with car sticker, magnet, wonderful letter, a school banner, it was so nice. They wanted her to row on the crew team also, and she was excited about that, although they are DIII so no athletic scholarships (which would have been nice and maybe made it possible). She is a little bummed, but I think I am more bummed than she is. A good friend of mine is from Boston and she said Simmons was her dream college but her parents would not pay the money for her to go there, so she was also holding out hope for my D that she would get enough to go. Oh, they also had the BEST little “welcome to Simmons” video on facebook. Crossing my fingers for you that maybe you get a better offer. She did apply for that scholarship…Kozon…or something like that, that was a full ride, but she didn’t get it obviously. Good luck!</p>
<p>I got my FA aid letter today and then spent 15 minutes crying feeling sorry for myself (productive, right?). My expected family contribution is $525, yet based on the tentative aid they offered we would have to find a way to make up $30k per year. I want to go to Simmons SO bad but taking on that much in loans (or asking my parents to) for ONE year is absurd. As much as I’d love to make an emotional decision to go there at any cost it’s just not logical and I would regret it later.
I wish I hadn’t got my hopes up so high. I really wanted to go to Boston…</p>
<p>barefoot - so sorry hon, almost the same situation as you are in. My daughter was accepted, great offer, but would need roughly $30,000 per year in loans for it to be work. Not possible for us. She found out she got wait-listed for Marist today, but I know that if she had gotten accepted to Marist, she would have gotten a very low fa offer, because they are not known for giving out money, so it’s probably best that she got wait-listed, and save us the aggravation of thinking we might be able to make it work. I’m so sorry for your disappointment. I hope whatever other schools you have as a back-up that you will learn to love that school. My daughter had to do that, and she is now in love with the school that DID offer her a great scholarship, and it’s local, so she can live at home and not have to pay for housing and that makes this other school now affordable for us. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Any other news on Simmons here? I did get accepted and did accept! I’m looking forward to my new home in months!</p>
<p>I got a new and much improved financial aid letter. I’m going to Simmons!</p>
<p>Really??? That’s awesome! I’m sending it in on Monday.</p>
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<li>barefootJ how long did it take them to review your appeal fin aid paperwork? And was it really that much better, that much of a difference after you resubmitted?</li>
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