<p>My son got an email this morning that his UNH FA info is available through his portal. Signed in and got the info. Actually got more than I expected to get. This is our first FA pkg. Hope we get others soon so we can make some decisions.</p>
<p>Hi Confusedmom! I found my son’s too. $10K in LOANS. All loans. So bye-bye UNH.</p>
<p>I’m glad that your son got more than expected - that’s great news!</p>
<p>Same here, 10K in loans. Not surprised though, the NPC predicted zero grant money for us. Probably where my son will end up going anyway. Pretty sad that a family at our income level is full pay at an instate public university.</p>
<p>I want to know who got scholarships. I was applicable for the second tier one and didn’t even get the third tier. Its alright though UNH was a safety school I actually got some grant money and not a lot of loans hopefully I can use it a a bargaining chip.</p>
<p>@miltoney - agree that our own state’s flagship school can’t do any better for my son. He already has other better offers out of state so the brain drain NH’s governor is concerned about continues. It’s really a shame.</p>
<p>UNH was a safety school for my son as well.</p>
<p>My son was awarded $6000 merit and then a $2695 Pell grant. That’s it. No mention of any loans even? Our EFC is 2081. UNH is not happening for us. Better luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>We received our UNH financial aid package. Like Confused Mom in MA, the package was quite good and now tuition and board to UNH is cheaper than UMASS for us.</p>
<p>That’s amazing, Maclass. We’re just the opposite! What is it with home flagship institutions and their residents? My son ended up with about $10K in financial aid - all loans. So bye-bye UNH</p>
<p>Both my son and I have liked UNH but my son had put it lower on the list because prior to receiving the financial aid package it was significantly higher in tuition than UMASS. Now with the package, it is a little lower than UMASS. We have not yet received the need based aid award for UMASS but my feeling is as was the case in your case with UNH, we will only get loans. Thus, UNH has now climbed the list to be equal with UMASS. I think it’s the state flagships way to get a more diverse student population.</p>
<p>That’s what I figure too although the new governor and the legislature whines about the brain drain from NH. Well? To some degree, we’re following the money!</p>
<p>We didn’t get enough from UNH to make it cheaper than UMass, just we got more than I expected to get. We got $6050 grant, $2500 work study and then stafford loan of $5500 ($3k sub, $2500 unsub)</p>
<p>We definitely have to consider the cost of college as a major part in our decision to picking a college. However, we also don’t want to push our son to go to a college because it was the least expensive. My husband was forced to go to a school because it was the most affordable and was miserable for his four years of school. Thus, we are cautioning our son to make a list of what is most important to him and then weigh the benefits of paying a little bit more, if the college better meets his needs and wants. On the other hand, if there is a significant difference and cost, he knows that he will need to re-consider his other options before making his final decisions.</p>
<p>That’s exactly where we are. But when UNH is all loans and he’s already had better offers elsewhere that make the bottom line more affordable, and he’d rather go elsewhere, well…</p>
<p>This is the way it seems to work…Umaine offered us a generous scholarship which would make it cheaper than UNH for us. Not by alot though, and my son will probably still attend UNH. He wants to be closer to home, and we would like him closer to home as well.</p>
<p>Mylohlily-You must be missing some information or haven’t received everything yet. If I’m not mistaken everybody qualifies for at least the stafford loans automatically after submitting fafsa.</p>
<p>Miltoney - we’re in the western part of the state so it’s equidistance to UNH and UMass for us (and the drive to UMass is easier since it’s all interstate). Our older son is attending college in Amherst as well which makes it awfully attractive! </p>
<p>When my older son applied to UNH two years ago, he didn’t receive anything from UNH - not even the Stafford loans. I think because our EFC is about what tuition, room and board at UNH costs?</p>
<p>Hi Milt, You may be right. I just checked my son’s financial aid again and now there isn’t anything there at all. It also says that we have unsatisfied requirements regarding the tax transcript. I already used the Tax retrieval tool but apparently UNH only receives that information once a week so perhaps they did not download it yet on their end? I contacted the FA office at UNH last week to let them know that we did supply all the required info. I guess we will have to wait and see.</p>
<p>Ok so I did just receive my son’s FA online and I was pleasantly surprised actually. He was given Federal grants as well as a generous OOS grant from UNH. We have a low EFC and I will have 2 children in college.</p>