<p>I read on Yale's finaid website <a href="http://www.yale.edu/sfas/financial/AwardFA.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/sfas/financial/AwardFA.htm</a>
that parental contributions include the student's summer earnings. So does this mean that effectively, the "self-help" portion is like $6000++ instead of $4200?</p>
<p>To Yalies on finaid - how many hours a week do you have to work to fulfil the $4200 self-help portion, and how much do you work in the summer?</p>
<p>Is it easy to do research (your chosen topic) for pay? Thanks!</p>
<p>I would wait a little on financial aid information since there will hopefully be a major revamp in family/student contribution this year. Should be announced soon.</p>
<p>I wonder what the average student salary is for someone at Yale :-</p>
<p>10 dollars an hour... 10 hrs a week... 30 weeks in a year....</p>
<p>Yale claims you can make up to 3000 dollars a year.</p>
<p>International students do not have to pay a summer contribution (After all, the plane ticket is really expensive.. )</p>
<p>Minimum wage per hour is $10.00 - which is much more than what other universities are offering.</p>
<p>Darn - then why does my finaid package have a larger-than-expected parental contribution which my parents can't afford? Do they calculate all these figures assuming that the accepted student isn't international?</p>
<p>Well, only the summer contribution is waived for international students ... and I'm not sure how they calculate the figures. </p>
<p>Larger-than-expected - you are not the only one :) Many others are complaining about their aid awards as well.... As for me, it was much larger than I expected, but among the other universities that I was accepted to, Yale was the second-most-generous.</p>