<p>Is it true that Emory gives better financial aid packages to applicants who have better academic credentials?</p>
<p>Not in my experience.</p>
<p>My D was accepted to Harvard, Duke, and Emory. Emory gave her 2/3 tuition scholarship and still the combined FA package is the lowest of the 3 schools. Her stats were top shelf and by your theory she should have been rewarded but that is not the case.</p>
<p>Anyone gotten their RD financial aid info? Still waiting on my D's. If you have gotten your package - were you happy with it??</p>
<p>Check OPUS that is where my D got her FA letter this week. I don't even think we have received a mailed copy. </p>
<p>"were you happy with it??" ...... No it is 3-4k above EFC and heavy on loans.</p>
<p>I have checked OPUS and although under things to do it says sign and return financial aid letter when I click on View financial Aid there is nothing there except: year 2006: Inquiry denied or something.. So, I have no idea why it isn't on there.. I did call the F.A. office and the lady there said we should have letter by the end of the week (generically.. not specific to D). They were not real friendly in that office and were VERY short in answer to my questions.. hmm.. didn't feel that was a good sign.. Emory is pretty much off D's list unless they offer some amazing F.A. and with our EFC that is highly unlikely!</p>
<p>Three years ago my D was an Emory Scholars semi-finalist...(and they said she'd get a better than average FA deal.) Guess what? Her package was the LEAST of the 12 schools she applied to!</p>
<p>What other schools did she apply to?</p>
<p>UF, Georgia Tech, Brandeis, Northwestern, Northeastern, Emory, UPenn, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, George Washington</p>
<p>...yeah, I know, way too many...but at least she had lots of options.</p>
<p>Woo,</p>
<p>That is a huge list. Which ones did she get into?</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard, Penn, G-Town, Columbia
In: GWU (Pres. Scholar) G-Tech - scholarship, Northeastern - big scholarship, Northwestern, Emory, Brandeis (scholarship), UF (full ride) and I forgot Tulane (scholarship.) </p>
<p>She ended up at Yale. No scholarship, some FA.</p>
<p>Emory is a great school, my younger D is looking there....they just didn't give us a lot of $$.</p>
<p>Emory has one of the largest alumni funds but it hates giving money away. I hate the fact that it doesn't give as much as other schools.</p>
<p>Wow. My son's Emory fin aid was one of his top packages, 85% is grant (about a 62% discount--but we will have two in college). Very low loans and work study. Only Pomona was better. Carleton was about the same. Emory offered more than Northwestern, U Chicago or U Rochester. Only Wake sent a stink bomb.</p>
<p>My daughter's financial aid mix changed between the first time she went into view it and yesterday--for the better. The first one had a package which was heavy on loans with some work study and a small grant. Yesterday, the loans were reduced to only the Stafford, the work study was gone and the remainder was a grant, over an $8,000 increase. We had no communication with the Financial Aid office requesting a change so I am not sure what happened, but it now puts Emory as the best package she has received (for schools where she was not offered scolarships).</p>
<p>Finally, my D's financial aid package is on OPUS! Very happy with the offer (we have a very high EFC - $23,590) and she was offered 2 different grants.. one for $16,390 and one for $5,000. She was also offered the unsubsidized Stafford loan of $2625. She had pretty much ruled Emory out.. thinking maybe she should make a visit now...</p>
<p>I was asking because on the collegeboard's website, it says that Emory considers academics, state residency, and financial need when distrubuting financial aid packages. <a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=539&profileId=2%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=539&profileId=2</a></p>
<p>I never thought Emory would give me such a good financial aid package. I was ready to go to UT and give up my dream of going to emory. And on top of that their aid package was like 95% grant.</p>
<p>So Excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>woodlands, do you mind sharing your package along with your EFC? Thanks. My package is an absolute BS.</p>
<p>My EFC was $19500
Emory's Package Was
$24000 Grants
$2500 Unsubsidized Stafford Loan</p>
<p>I think my private scholarships will eliminate the loann. So i'm :)</p>
<p>Sorry about your package though :(</p>
<p>haha, this is so nice. My EFC was under $4000 and I received $4500 grants and $2500 loan. Wonderful!</p>
<p>My grant ended up being $22000.
By far my best offer.</p>