<p>I can't figure out if it's too good to be true!!!
For admitted people.... is your fin. aid offer waaaaay better than for all other private schools?? Called office, they said it was for real.
If so.... Pomona is amazing and I am going :)</p>
<p>I need more forms for my fin. aid to be calculate :(</p>
<p>I would only be responsible for paying about $2,000 for my first year there. :0</p>
<p>does the financial aid award pay for every thing but ur Expected family contribution or is it even better than that?</p>
<p>Pomona is faaaar and away the most generous financial aid offer, short of a full ride, than I expected to get. I'd only be paying 3,000 (optioning not to do student employment). </p>
<p>Is the offer renewed every year that we attend?</p>
<p>^yeah, i'd also like an answer to that</p>
<p>You have to reapply for financial aid every year, but you get equally good or better packages every year...unlike some schools which give you a really good package as a freshman to get you to attend and then give you poor packages for the other three years.</p>
<p>Congrats to all of you and hope you decide to come to Pomona next year!</p>
<p>if my family has a 28000 EFC... would my fin. award cover every thing but that 28,000?</p>
<p>Fin aid does get renewed each yr. The fin aid office is great and will work with you. You can sign up for a mtg during admitted students day as well.
They have always been wonderful and easy to work with. Congradulations everyone!!</p>
<p>pomona's package is amazing... 46,500 dollars. Nobody can believe it here at my high school (small, public, doesn't really send students to top-tier private schools ever). Nobody's ever heard of pomona cause we're on the east coast in rural NY. But they are very surprised when I tell them about the amazing financial aid there. Pomona is an incredibly generous school..and i'm very happy about that!</p>
<p>Pomona has the sixth highest endowment per student of all colleges in the nation. The difference between Pomona and some of the colleges above them is that they are extremely generous to the students. Pomona is not a huge university that spends so much on research, etc. The ones above them are: Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Grinnell (Yes, Grinnell- the microchip and Intel had something to do with that) and then Pomona. </p>
<p>Pomona announced last year that their financial offers would not include loans for the need portion. I think they offer loans as a courtesy , but you don't need to take them because the grants are so high.</p>
<p>If you can get into Pomona (no small task! Congrats!) then they make it possible for all their students to really go there. They don't just pay lip service to meeting 100% of need.</p>