<p>When you get your packages, discuss here. </p>
<p>My attending is all contingent on my financial aid... so I'm very nervous! I hope if it doesn't pull through I can at LEAST call them up. We actually made a mistake on our CSS profile and listed our investment debt as lower than it actually is, so maybe that will increase our fin aid?</p>
<p>Alright, reviving this thread.</p>
<p>They’re posted up now - I’m a bit disappointed with mine. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Aim aim aim</p>
<p>I’m unbelievably happy. I basically got full tuition, zero loans.</p>
<p>Sigh. Unfortunately, the financial aid system does not cater well towards the middle class!</p>
<p>neethus1 -
Please don’t tell me that this means you’re not going to Tufts. Too many of us have invested too much emotional energy in you!
Seriously, I really hope that you can work this out. You belong at Tufts!
Good luck!</p>
<p>Aw… thanks WCAS. I’m not sure if my family can afford it.</p>
<p>Hopefully it’ll pull through for me… thanks :)</p>
<p>My package wasn’t what I expected it to be either… they said my EFC was WAY higher than most other schools. What should I do now? My going to Tufts depends on this!</p>
<p>My financial aid package came today, and I received no aid. For a very long time now I have aspired to go to Tufts. Years of hard work in school, and many hours of toil over my application yielded an acceptance letter. I was deeply gratifying to be admitted. Getting in confirmed the value of my hard work and, for a moment, seemed to be the realization of my aspirations. Sadly there is a highly significant gap between what my family thinks we can pay and what Tufts seems to.</p>
<p>Not being able to attend for financial reasons has not made me bitter. I still love Tufts as a community and admire the quality education it provides. I am disappointed that I will cannot attend. Ultimately, however, it is the student not the school that determines the value of an education and I am very ready dedicate myself to that education. To enrolling students I wish you the best. You are truly attending one of the greatest schools in America. To the admissions officers thank you for seeing in me a student worthy of your university.</p>
<p>Jake- you’re not going to just give up, are you? Maybe there’s some way you can figure it out with the FA office. At least that’s what I’m hoping to do… I don’t even know if it’s really possible but I’ve been dreaming about going to Tufts for years and I don’t know what I’m going to do if I can’t go.</p>
<p>^jake, i feel the exact same way. I am pretty sure I probably won’t be attending Tufts since the aid I was given really isn’t enough…my family’s EFC was shockingly high to me and I cannot ask my parents to take out loans or extra mortgages even though I truly love Tufts. I also noticed you’re looking into McGill–perhaps we’ll see each other there since I’m pretty sure I’ll be attending it instead. </p>
<p>As for what zooey said, I would love to work it out with the FA office but I honestly don’t see how it’s possible given the current economic circumstances, with Tufts especially (losing money with the Madoff scandal and having to partially cancel need-blind policies). I know romeboards managed to work out his/her situation but there were extenuating circumstances that the FA office wasn’t fully aware of which isn’t true for me. Oh well. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else and congrats to those with great aid packages. :)</p>
<p>I’m sorry neethus1- our financial aid package is doable if we continue to keep things spartan around here and don’t move to a better neighborhood as we had dreamed about. Tufts actually gave us more money than BU or Fordham, about the same as BC. We’ll visit next week for Open House to be 1,000 percent sure, but as of this moment, looks like I’m a Tufts parent!</p>
<p>It’s okay, westernhills. Hopefully they’ll be able to scrounge up some more money for me somewhere!</p>
<p>I haven’t even gotten my financial aid package (or lack of it) yet!
Will it come tomorrow? I live in Eastern NY.</p>
<p>It’s online on TAMS. I suspect it should come today or tomorrow in the mail.</p>
<p>My aid package was more than I expected, but still not doable. it’s double the cost of the state university honors program that is my other option. If Tufts was go magically give me 18,000 more in grants though, that’d be super sweet! any chance? any chance?</p>
<p>My EFC was way higher than other schools have calculated it, with me having to pay 25,500 a year. Vandy, here I come!</p>
<p>Nope, not great, loans higher than other schools and parent contribution the highest too. Emailed FA just to make sure, but doesn’t look like S will be attending.</p>
<p>Not a good package.</p>
<p>Fafsa EFC is $400, but Tufts expects us to magically come up with $27,000.
Is this huge gap reasonable at Tufts or did they make a mistake?</p>
<p>74777 - Could you post your stats that resulted in you saying “I’m unbelievably happy. I basically got full tuition, zero loans.” That might help those of us who were expecting aid and got zero decide why we should still consider Tufts the best fit. Thanks!</p>