<p>I am Irish, I'd love to go to ND. But the problem is, the cost is so high. How do you all afford it????</p>
<p>Scholarships/Financial Aid.</p>
<p>In my case I have to get the NROTC Scholarship or I can't attend.</p>
<p>The price isn't fun but ND does have a good amount of need based aid and I have heard they are good at handing it out (I unfortunately don't qualify). For me, however, there are always loans and lots of them!</p>
<p>Irish: Centennial, CO, nice. I am in Alamosa Colorado right now. How much is ND?</p>
<p>ND costs about 40,000 a year when you factor in all of the costs. Also, I have heard Alamosa is nice (I haven't been there but I had a very good friend whose girlfriend is from Alamosa). Good luck and remember with the finances...almost always if there is a will there is a way.</p>
<p>You do find a way. I've got three years paid for for my son, with one to go. When he first started there I laid awake nights worrying about it, but it all worked out. He takes out loans, we get a little financial aid, and I (the mom) work to make the money we contribute, which is about half of the total.</p>
<p>To me, it is completely and totally worth it to pay for a Notre Dame education. There's nothing like it.</p>
<p>In my case I qualified for a large amount of need-based aid. Then again I do also have a lot of debt to pay off starting in the near future. Was it worth, I would like to think so...</p>
<p>What about for those who have absolutely no chance at financial aid- how easy it is to find a job on or around campus?</p>
<p>You can almost always get a job in the dining halls, and a lot of kids do. I know the on-campus travel agency hires kids to deliver tickets on campus. Jobs are not scarce by any means, even if you don't qualify for FA.</p>
<p>If you feel like an ND education is worth it, you'll do whatever you can to afford it. Loans, jobs, etc. Most people do feel like it's worth it.</p>
<p>From what I hear, there are always jobs available in the dining halls or elsewhere on campus My son works for security walking girls back to their dorms at night.</p>
<p>Well, my family isnt too wealthy, I'd love to go to ND, but $40k a year, that is so high that I could win a $50,000 scratch ticket and wouldnt be anything near the cost to go there.</p>
<p>well to the above poster if you're family isn't that wealthy, you would be considered for need-based finacial aid if you applied to ND and were accepted. Consideration and the amount of financial aid would be based on the information you provided when you completed the FAFSA and CSS and then verified upon reciept by the university's financial aid dept of a copy of your previous year's tax return.</p>
<p>when i say verified, I mean that the University would extend an offer of financial aid after reciept of the tax return, which would allow them to verify the information you or your parents supplied to them regarding your financial situation....</p>
<p>There are plenty of jobs available on campus at any time to students. They range from the dining hall to working for various on campus food stands (subway, starbucks, sbarro's), to jobs for professors or University depts. The dining hall starts pay at $6.35 per hour (the pretty standard basic un-skilled student worker wage on campus). I've had several jobs that paid much better than that....that is not the purpose of this thread though. I would caution people who work on campus to be careful how much you do. I work between 20-30 hours right now, and while I have no trouble getting hw done, it does effect time I have available to do other things. Just my two cents.</p>