<p>E-mail them ASAP and explain them your fin situation in deth. Be polite. Update us!</p>
<p>If Mt. Holyoke meets full need as they say, they still gave me lower than our EFC but students have to remember they usually don’t calculate R&B which is almost 12,000, that will always be on you.</p>
<p>Aaandd waitlisted…
So that’s another one month of waiting… </p>
<p>Congrats on all those acceptances!!</p>
<p>@lulzg, thanks. I’ll tell my dad to draft it today. I’ve got my final exam(Math) in a day actually that’s why I’d said 2-3 days. I really hope it works out. Will keep you updated!</p>
<p>@Debruns, so you mean to say that they expect the EFC to be what you reported it to be + R&B? Or they take out R&B from the EFC you reported?</p>
<p>what’s R&B?</p>
<p>Room and board.</p>
<p>Colleges seem to use your EFC on tuition only. So if the college is 35,000 and your EFC is 15,000 you have to pay with a full need award of 15,000, 20,000 plus room & board. That ups the amount to 30.000.
I don’t add in workstudy, because that is spread out and not (with 10.000 R&B)guaranteed, so that is added to the parents contribution for us.</p>
<p>Oh I didn’t know that at all. I just thought we are making EFC for costs in total. I mean most of their students are on campus, like 99% so it’s expected I’ll live on campus… If I knew that, my EFC would be smaller. But on the other hand, I know many people got scholarships around50k so I guess it depends on college.</p>
<p>Correction, I meant to put the 10.000 R&B after the 30,000 but you get what I mean.
I have found some colleges give a little more to attract some candidates and less to others, but overall, Mount Holyoke wasn’t a bad package, just a little too much for us. We have miminal assets and although it was an honor to be chosen for the scholarship, they must have known we couldn’t pay it without huge loans,especially with her sister in college also.
There are some colleges that give rare Full Ride awards that include R&B and books,etc. Usually the student is way above their stats and has a lot of offer the community.</p>
<p>Awww, I got in for Spring admission. Fail.</p>
<p>How did that happen? Did you apply for that? :-/</p>
<p>I applied for Fall admission, so I have no idea. :|</p>
<p>They didn’t mention it in the letter? I’ve heard of students being offered Spring admission when they had a full class and knew some students would leaving first semester.
You can call or write and ask, especially if you didn’t ask for it.</p>
<p>My letter didn’t really give a good explanation, and honestly I thought I was in for Fall 2010 until it mentioned January 2011. The letter totally tried to fluff it up, though, and it mentioned that they admit ~100 for the Spring to fill up spots left by people studying abroad.</p>
<p>I think I might call on Monday. :|</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mtholyoke.edu/admission/congratulations/spring_entrance.html[/url]”>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/admission/congratulations/spring_entrance.html</a></p>
<p>I, also, got offered spring admission. I dont even get what it means! Ughhh so confused…</p>
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<p>You’re correct.</p>
<p>@kellebag - Me too. ): I know it’s better than being rejected (or waitlisted??), but I’m still a little depressed.</p>
<p>@Debruns: Sorry, but I’m still slightly confused. Say my EFC was 10K, I’m expected to pay that for tuition and extra for R&B?
So if MHC’s tuition fees are 35K, I’d get an award for 25K? </p>
<p>Please clarify. :)</p>
<p>Also, can you somebody tell me the email ID for the student financial services?
It opens up on Outlook on my desktop and I don’t use that.
(Lame, I know:P)</p>
<p>Crewdad, do you mean colleges include room&board in calculating your EFC? I have never seen that myself. I remember a discussion on this site explaining that it wasn’t included.
If that’s the case, then they didn’t come close to meeting our EFC on any calculator which is odd. If I don’t count R&B, it’s is closer with loans.
A non 100% need school left us with 14,500 to pay (with a student loan) so it’s not always something you can count on.</p>