<p>LaVie - be sure to let the admissions office know how much your daughter wants to come to Emory, maybe that will help her get off the waitlist, obviously there are a lot of kids that will not be attending due to major lack of aid this year.</p>
<p>Bamboo - i think you hit the nail on the head!</p>
<p>Mine says “inquiry access denied.” ***?</p>
<p>^ are you waitlisted?</p>
<p>where is the fin aid listed?</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m on OPUS, but I have no CLUE where everyone is seeing this stuff. I got waitlisted, but shouldn’t that not matter.</p>
<p>^ did you receive an email about your FA?</p>
<p>have not gotten an email. is that how everyone is finding out?</p>
<p>So wait, if it says 5500 in loan, do I have to burrow that money? I don’t get all this financial aid business. What’s a Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loan anyway?</p>
<p>I was admitted. They just figured out that they actually had all of my materials today, so now that I think about it, of course my aid package wouldn’t be ready yet!</p>
<p>this just makes me sad</p>
<p>my efc was around 4000 from fafsa and emory is offering me only half, and i also received 5,500 in loans…</p>
<p>but im binding…</p>
<p>im also getting th “inquiry access denied.” whats weird is my decision letter is still unavailable and i know i got in cuz the decision came in my email and there is a link to pay the deposit…any ideas?</p>
<p>^^^
dont worry about the decision letter</p>
<p>however, im not sure about ur financial aid, check back tomorrow</p>
<p>Will Emory match another school’s finaid package if they are around the same price?</p>
<p>does anyone else consider 26k (17k in grants) too low for a person whose family income is around 30k?</p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>I fully encourage people to ask about/negotiate financial aid, especially if a comparable school has offered a better package. I have had success with this in the past because of the way the fafsa makes it seem like my family has money. If you want to go to Emory, don’t let the offer they have made for aid stand in the way. Worst case scenario they don’t increase the aid. You don’t know if you don’t try.</p>
<p>thanks for the tip amadani
my parents drove all the way to georgia last week but only ended up asking simple questions…</p>
<p>is it alrite to just call them and have my parents with me to talk to a financial aid advisor?</p>
<p>Emory offers me about $19000 including $2000 work study and $5500 loan. NU offers me about $23000 including about $6500 total in loan and work study. So Emory does not look attractive at all.</p>
<p>Yes, your parents should call and ask to talk to your financial aid adviser. If you have better offers, ask Emory to meet them (and, of course, express your desire to attend Emory).
Also, if Emory is your top choice, you should appeal your aid award to one of the people overseeing financial aid. They tend to understand more about what families can actually afford.</p>
<p>hmm… what can i say</p>
<p>my efc is prob around 2000 and after loans and grants and workstudy i still have to pay 14000 about. </p>
<p>i think m going to take the offer. lol, we’re poor but not really as ppor as we claim. my parents just wanted tuiton to be covered, so about 36,000+ in total FA, thats about tuition, which is 37,000.</p>
<p>i ono, considering i havent really gotten better offers, and even if i do, atlanta is prob a lot cheaper than say boston MA. and id ont want to go to canada or hk. ugh lame.</p>
<p>so yeah, i’m pretty darn happy. its bad econ times nayway</p>
<p>next yr i thikn i’ll shoot for some merit aid or sth, missed deadline this yr, darn. haha~ :)</p>
<p>Only 5500k in loans.
Would have to pay around $37k out of pocket or find other loans</p>
<p>Huge blow.</p>