“Are you sure you don’t even want to consider student loans from different avenues?”
Easysafe – I sure hope the OP is smart enough to avoid any student loans above the amount offered by the federal government.
Thanks to you all. After a lot of back and forth, I decided I’m going to apply to Brown RD anyway. I figure that I would rather be accepted and know that I did it, yet can’t afford it/rejected and have that chapter closed than go the rest of my life wondering “what if?” And if the aid works out and I’m accepted, then great! If not, then oh well, at least I tried! Brown has been my #1 for a while, so I feel I owe it to myself to at least try. Thanks!