<p>What the hell? I got ~20,000 in aid for OOS… but it’s ALL loans.</p>
<p>That means my parents will need to pay 19,000 out of pocket AND take out 20,000 in loans EVERY year.</p>
<p>I hope this isn’t right… At the very minimum, I/we will be $150,000 in debt at the end of just undergrad. This is ridiculous and not feasible :(</p>
<p>Kenson, we’re in the same boat with you. OOS, our aid consist all of loans. UW is not very generous with OOS as far as grants/scholarships, but we knew that going in. Our S is contemplating a few other Pac10 schools, but UW is high on the list.</p>
<p>I’m just shocked at how much it will all add up to. I always (incorrectly I guess) thought I’d be paying way less than the “Sticker” price of tuition… but I’m going to be paying sticker+interest if I do. Disappointing 
I’m seriously considering a safety now.</p>
<p>Kenson, Pop808, I’m in state and my aid are all loans. My parents have to pay a little over $7,000 out of pocket, about $5,500 in student loans, and $10,000 on “parent loans”. I have a full ride to the rival school, WSU–as much as I prefer UW, I think I’d rather go to WSU so that way I won’t be in debt at all and my parents won’t have to pay or take out loans.</p>
<p>Does anybody know when letters are mailed out about UW scholarships? Things like Mary Gates, etc.</p>
<p>Do you guys think I could ask them to make some changes? Like have our EFC be the Parent Plus Loans then have the rest as student loans?</p>
<p>o.O Tell me if that works out smoothly I would love to do that as well, ross25! :)</p>
<p>I’m afraid to call…I think I have a few hours to muster up some courage. I hate phone calls. Seriously. So here’s my plan, since I’m on spring break, I’m going to go take a little drive and head up there and talk to someone.</p>
<p>Yeah, this unfortunately sucks. Does anyone even know what those different loans mean? I looked on the website, and all I could comprehend was that you will begin to pay all of the money after you graduate for up to 10 years?</p>
<p>yeah. . . I’m oos and I tried calling to get something besides loans . .the only thing I got was being transfered from office to office, and I’m still left with ~$30,000 in loans.</p>
<p>I thought for sure that they would give financial aid in the form of grants and work study, not JUST loans. Ughh. This is such a pain.</p>
<p>This is definitely kind of depressing. I don’t know what they expect… pay+take loans worth 40% of our income EVERY year? We have two other kids in college for goodness sake.</p>
<p>i dont know anything about financial aid. can anyone inform me?</p>
<p>does the $ given depend on your grades also?
and to all the people saying you’re getting $9k in grants. is that per year? or total?</p>
<p>I drove up there today and talked to the financial aid guy and he said that because of my EFC, they really can’t do anything. They suggested I look out private student loans if I don’t want to have my parents take out the 10K and/or pay the 7K EFC. So much for that. But I really liked it there…my friend’s cousin is graduating from the BioE program and I really want to do that…if I can make it.</p>
<p>So I received about $20,000 (Grants only) from UCSD and even work study of $2850. But since I’m a Washington resident, I still have another $30,000 to pay… </p>
<p>I was only given $13,000 (Grants only, not Work study) from UW and I live far away from Seattle. I’m from a low income family and I can’t afford to get loans for the dorm. Do you think it’s worth to make a trip to UW to show what UCSD offered me and ask for more aid?</p>
<p>gl92- I don’t think UW will adjust your aid as they are already a lot cheaper than UCSD for you since you are in-state. They are giving you 13k; tuition is what, about 8-9k for instate plus another 8-9k for room and board? So you need to come up with @ 5k. Between summer job and p/t job during school you can probably come up with a good chunk of that and then get a loan for maybe 2-3k per year, which would not be too much debt to carry.It sounds like UW is a good deal.</p>
<p>gl92 - They won’t. I tried the same thing (only instead of UCSD, it was WSU) and told them about WSU’s (essentially free) offer.</p>
<p>I’ve accepted the financial aid offer that they gave me but what am I supposed to do if I’ve been awarded a scholarship? I need to tell them about this, right?</p>
<p>^^^
Congrats on getting a scholarship!
Yea I think you are supposed to write the name and amount that you were awarded in the resources section of the financial aid status offer page and then submit it.</p>
<p>Thanks. But what happens if I just recieved my scholarship yesterday and I accepted my financial aid offer awhile ago? Can I edit the information on MyUW or something?</p>