<p>Is BU known for giving decent financial aid packages?
especially this year?</p>
<p>well i dunno , tough question to answer........for some they gave excellent packages.. like for instance I was quite fortunate...they gave me 36k in grants and 7 in student loans...for SMG...some others..less fortunate..i know someone from my school who got into same program and was given just 500 dollars...so yeah............</p>
<p>oh yeah by the way my EFC was 0 and my friends was 20,000</p>
<p>my efc was like 400 something, and I received 3000 in loans..
quite painful..
trying to figure out what to do</p>
<p>I have 33k efc...I'm going into ENG and they gave me 13k grant + 2.5k loans.</p>
<p>Not bad compared to my friends who had efc's under 10k and even zero where they only got 5k or so in grants/loans. Apparently they say it has to do with your avg. I have a 91 they have around 87-88.</p>
<p>Another friend had 90 gpa, zero efc, and got 36k or something in grants and some more in loans. That still wasn't enough for her so she contacted the financial aid dep and asked them for more. After showing she needed it, they gave it to her.</p>
<p>Sigh even with 13k its gonna be incredibly hard paying the rest...I don't want to come out of college in a ditch already. I'm gonna try to talk to them next week at open house to give me some more.</p>
<p>they are not able to change anything at the open house. you would still have to file a letter of appeal.</p>