<p>just checked my financial aid status for ohio state and it is online now just so everyone knows! received over $23000 in scholarships, grants, and loans!!!</p>
<p>Wow. I love OSU’s financial aid! I just got another chemical engineering scholarship today. That makes 4 scholarships totaling 13,000!</p>
<p>i filled out the special app for scholarships or whatever…how do i find out if i won any of them?</p>
<p>hmmm…son’s award page is still empty. Not even the scholarship offerings are listed. Only change is on the to do page where there is some information on Stanford loans.</p>
<p>it may have to do with when you turned in your app fee or fafsa…im not sure, i filled out the special scholarship app as well and on the award page it said i received the stadium scholarship</p>
<p>Wt.F? It says cost of attendance is $26,847??? In state? I am so confused.</p>
<p>well that’s including tuition (about 9,000), room and board (about 10,000), books, fees, and other person expenses that you might have to pay. I’m sure that they have a financial breakdown somewhere on their site where you can view what the 26,000 estimate includes.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure 26000 is a bit of an exaggeration. I have a friend who is attending that said that everything comes out to be about 21000 for him a year.</p>
<p>It was not an exaggeration on my part. I expected it to be ~21k and it apparently is 26+some change. Osu seems to try to attract the top students from other states MUCH more than ohio. Why would they expect me to pick OSU over a top LAC or a top 10 engineering school for a similar price?</p>
<p>Physicsdude, I did not mean that you were exaggerating.I realize that you got the value of 26000 from the osu website, as did I. I am simply saying that I believe tOSU is exaggerating when they are saying that it costs 26k to attend. As I mentioned, current students say they pay about 21k.</p>
<p>LOL.
I’m out of state and mine says estimated cost of attendance is $42975…</p>
<p>I’ve already decided on Grinnell, but I checked my FA from OSU anyway. I got total crap from OSU. Pell Grant, 3k in Grants from OSU, 2k in Work Study, $5,000 in loans, and a gap of over $10,000 between the offer and COA that I would’ve had to take out in private loans. At that kind of cost, I would’ve never attended anyway.</p>
<p>my financial aid page says “no financial aid available” or something…</p>
<p>My housing stuff came to my email on friday! my roommate and i did it asap haha and had it in by like 4 on friday. :p</p>
<p>to make this relevant to the thread: i got no fa i wasn’t expecting. just my $11,100 in scholarships and a $5,500 unsub loan. i’m still happy.</p>
<p>what’s the special app for scholarships?</p>
<p>never mind! I found it, the priority date was Feb 15th though 
did you guys submit it recently?</p>
<p>I still have nothing on my FA page…</p>
<p>Son just received FA package yesterday. We were selected for an audit and had to submit additional paperwork for verification.</p>
<p>Estimated Cost of Attendance Expected Family Contribution Financial Aid Need</p>
<p>What do these three numbers mean?</p>
<p>Estimated Cost includes tuition, r&b, mandatory fees, and estimated expenses including books, travel and person expenses.</p>
<p>EFC is the number that FAFSA says your family (including you) is expected to contribute to the cost of your college education. This does include those estimated expenses.</p>
<p>Your Financial Need is the difference between the above. Some schools pledge to meet the difference 100%. That 100% can include scholarships, grants, loans (for you and/or your parents) and work study.</p>