<p>On average, how long is it before accepted students receive their financial aid package?</p>
<p>My son received his financial aid package about a week after his acceptance came.</p>
<p>Rank speculation time: What are the chances ND will follow suit with Harvard, Yale, Brown, Stanford and MIT in revising its finaid to help modern middle-class families?</p>
<p>Thanks 4Mom. Was your son accepted Early Application, or Regular? Objectively, do you feel it was a good offer?</p>
<p>Father Jenkins comments on this question in a recent interview on NDTV which you can watch here: [NDtv</a> :: NDtv On Demand](<a href=“http://www.nd.edu/~sbnd/ndtvod/oh_201.html]NDtv”>http://www.nd.edu/~sbnd/ndtvod/oh_201.html)</p>
<p>So could you give us the Cliff Notes version of the video?</p>
<p>My son was accepted regular application. He’s attending now so that tells you that we thought the package was sufficient to allow him to attend. He was also accepted early action to Boston College, to their honors program, and received an amount so small as to be laughable. He was accepted to Washington and Lee with a somewhat better offer but one that wasn’t enough for us to actually afford to send him. Notre Dame was the last place we heard from and we had pretty much settled on a very nice LAC that had been very generous when we received the offer from ND. We were very naive about aid since this was our first child to go off to college. We sent the same financial info to everyone and expected those that only gave need based aid to come up with the same basic EFC. If ND holds true to form, you can expect them to really look at your information and figure out what is necessary for you to actually attend. It’s not a walk in the park financially but it’s doable.</p>
<p>^ That’s exactly what happened to me with BC. 3500 in loans and I’m just in the middle class. Hopefully ND will actually give me enough to allow me to attend.</p>
<p>4Mom - Thank you… We will just have to be patient (and continue to pray) for 3-5 more weeks before finding out. First about being accepted and then the fianacial aid package.</p>
<p>gandert, thank you for the link to the video. Good Source</p>
<p>I’ll be praying too, for my son and your child as well…Good Luck</p>
<p>my s received the FA package including all possible aids (federal perkins loan, sub stafford loan, unsub stafford loan, work assistance and ND scholarship). He is applying for some outside scholarships now. If he get some of them, which one could be reduced first among those aids? ND scholarship first and work assistance sencond …?</p>
<p>i received my aid package today and it was actually really good; overall it came to $33,000 of insitutional workstudy, and stafford aid per year at ND! WOOO!</p>
<p>Also got my aid package today and it is unbelievable. $42,some in grants and scholarships (*including around $1.5k in campus work). Single-parent family, bro’s in college, EFC around $5k.</p>
<p>Were you accepted EA?</p>
<p>AynRand don’t get your hopes up too high – my ND package was exactly the same as my BC package, unfortunately</p>
<p>Notre Dame’s stated policy is to reduce loans first if you get outside scholarships</p>
<p>Did any other EA people not get their package yet? Grr. We’re visiting over the weekend, and I wanted to know before going.</p>
<p>what was everyone’s EFC?</p>
<p>mine is pretty low, so i’m expecting alot of aid</p>
<p>I am EA, and I havent gotten mine officially yet, but they had it calculated as early as mid. February, && I was told (unofficially) while I was on Spring Vis what I would get. I’m just wondering why it is taking so long to just send it out, i want it in writing!!!</p>
<p>and my EFC was pretty low, but ND determined it to be about $1000 lower than that : )
Needless to say, I was happy!</p>