<p>Just wondering...</p>
<p>I'd like to see an answer to this as well.</p>
<p>The awarding of financial aid for graduate schools is VERY different than the awarding of financial aid for undergraduate school. Most colleges do not meet full need for grad school via the FAFSA calculations. Of course many grad programs do offer fellowships, assistantships or scholarships that they award to students based on merit. But need based aid...well...awarded very differently. Remember that grad students by FAFSA definition are independent. For many grad students, if not most, who attend right out of undergraduate school, their EFC is about 0 (because they have no savings, no assets, and have had very minimal income). This would mean that schools who professed to meet full need for grad students would likely be paying the full tab for almost everyone. I don't believe this is the case.</p>
<p>Professional schools- MBA/Law/Med have a CSS profile style of aid and include your parents assets, in most cases.</p>
<p>Grad school may offer subsidized & unsubsidized Stafford loans, "work study" $ which can be applied to a RA or TA position, select students may also get a tuition remission meaning no charge for tuition. There are no govt grants like the Pell, SEOG, etc that i can see.</p>
<p>There are some Health Professions loans and grants.</p>
<p>Not all Professional schools require CSS. The institution I work at offers graduate degrees for MBA and MEd candidates and we look solely at the FAFSA information...which does not take parental information into consideration for graduate students.</p>
<p>Good to hear NikkiL.</p>
<p>Also, PhD funding should be covered, meaning between teaching & stipends & tuition remission you should nto be paying out of pocker to pursue a PhD- the school ought to provide you enough to live like a starving college student</p>