<p>Hi I am a senior finishing her last batch of college apps.
How generous is the financial aid for someone in my income bracket?<br>
The money decides where I will apply.
Thanks!</p>
<p>You may have some loan and work study but not grant if you don’t get in the top one.</p>
<p>Hopkins is pretty generous with Financial aid from what I’ve heard. And honestly, work-study is even better than getting financial aid. It basically secures you a job and the jobs here are usually really easy and pay well.</p>
<p>What is work-study AAustin? Is it like paying for college yourself? Because I’d be willing to do that.</p>
<p>Work study is basically where an employer (usually, but not always, one of the offices at the university) hires you, but your wage is subsidized. This allows you to get a fun and easy part-time job while you’re a student. The employers for these jobs also generally know that you’re a student, so they’ll be flexible with you about schedules… they’re usually OK with it if you want to take the day off because you need to study for an exam or write a paper.</p>
<p>You can only earn up to a certain amount of work study money in a year, so you’re not going to be able to pay all of your tuition, room and board expenses with it, but its definitely a good way to pick up a few thousand dollars in income each year to make things more manageable.</p>
<p>As for financial aid more generally, the Hopkins FA office is pretty generous. They take into account a number of factors beyond your federal “financial need” number, so it’s hard to say exactly what they would offer you but I got at least as much from them as I would have gotten anywhere else (apart from one of the few places like Harvard and Princeton who cover full need with grants).</p>