Financial aid appeal

<p>did anyone write a letter to appeal their financial aid decision?
if so, why?</p>

<p>yes--got 3000 more.</p>

<p>how can i appeal? do i send a letter or write an email? what do i say? thanks = )</p>

<p>I got $4,000 more. Generous, but still not enough.</p>

<p>how did you guys do that?</p>

<p>Betty Rides, how did you ask them for more money? did you just call them or acutally write a letter?</p>

<p>I'd ask help from your parents. You should also call financial aid and ask how to go about this, as my details are going to be sketchy*.</p>

<p>I accepted their initial offer, then sent in all of the tax reforms and the W2 for 2005. I kept bugging them every day, and explained that I really wanted to go to BU, but it just wouldn't be possible in my present $$ situation. I think the appeal process is described in the WebLink online. I think.</p>

<p>Hope that helps. Good luck!</p>

<p>*... told you.</p>

<p>my dad just sent a letter to appeal my financial aid.
i hope it will work.....by the way what was your efc again?</p>

<p>they rejected my appeal...looks like loans for me...</p>

<p>Here's another option...</p>

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<p>I read about this BU accepted student going on EBAY in todays's BU FREE PRESS. Click on the link for it (posted on earlier thread)and you'll see.</p>

<p>They take Financial Aid pretty seriously...</p>

<p>they released me from my Early Decision II agreement because they didn't offer a realistic amount of aid. They met my EFC, but that was outrageously high and not an accurate picture of our finances.</p>

<p>My EFC was calculated at around $21,000. And that's about $21,000 too much. My financial situation has changed drastically since last year. My father is unemployed with no future prospects and my mother makes less than $30,000.</p>

<p>By the way, how much did that kid get? I should've done that for NYU. Oh well.</p>

<p>BettyRides,</p>

<p>When I talked to the admissions office, they were very kind and pretty insightful. I'm sure if you explain your situation, they'd work with you to up your aid to a more reasonable level. I got released from my ED agreement because of emergency circumstances and they were very understanding about it.</p>

<p>Oh no, they were very nice and helpful, but they'd have to give me at least $30,000 in grants for me to attend. They did offer me a fairly generous financial aid package, but just not up to par, and that's including the appeal money. Thanks for the help though. Besides, I already sent in my deposit for another school yesterday. Are you going to BU?</p>

<p>I applied early decision because I was sure I wanted to go there, and by the time March rolled around, a lot of problems happened in my family and I didn't have the gall to go 2000 miles from home. Plus they gave us 15k while I was expecting around 30k, so I had to tell them I couldn't do it. </p>

<p>They released me from the ED agreement, but they weren't happy about it and it took them two months to do it. They were pretty polite through the entire thing, and that's what really surprised me about it though.</p>

<p>Is anyone still reading this? At BU I received NO financial aid whatsoever. I appealed to the assistant director of financial aid and to the director, but both told me that they could not give me any further aid even though my parents only make about $100,000 a year and my twin sister will also be attending BU. Our total cost will be around $90,000. My stats are a 2230 SAT, 5s on two AP tests, 4.02 GPA, and I still didn't receive money. Does this seem weird to anyone?</p>

<p>lol only 100,000k a year?...i think that answers your question....you prolly shoulda received some merid with your nice stats....but "need-based aid" is given to those w/ need...its good taht you tried..but im guessin thats y you didnt get more....90k divided by 4 years is around 22,500 a year... look to see if your EFC was around 20k...</p>

<p>Our house pulls in 75k and my EFC came out to be 33k. Naturally, we have investments that are quite hefty, but I expected more aid than that. I don't think the EFC is a good indicator of what is affordable for the family or what the family can sustain over time- it doesn't factor in a billion things that really matter. Do they really expect my parents to screw retirement so their kid can go to college?</p>

<p>no... i think xctwin198 means that with her and her twin sister both attending BU, it winds up being 90k PER YEAR... which is outrageous..</p>