<p>Is everyone getting their finaid package online? because mine still hasn’t showed up yet…and it’s been over a week (the time they told me to wait). I sent all my stuff in Feb.</p>
<p>We received ours the same day as the BIG envelope. It appeared online in Where Am I In The Process a few days later.</p>
<p>41,510.00 Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Grant
1,209.00 Federal Work-Study
3,500.00 Suggested Subsidized Federal Direct Stafford Loan
2,000.00 Suggested Unsubsidized Federal Direct Stafford Ln</p>
<p>Sounds good to me :)</p>
<p>Wow, that’s awesome! Did you have 0 financial need per fafsa and a large EFC? Based on our income we had a large EFC which made us ineligible for any need based aid. My son is heartbroken…this is his number one choice. 
He has a $15k and 17k scholarship from other schools based solely on merit…we are very bummed…</p>
<p>Yeah i really lucked out. I applied ED to SCS. I have a bro in grad school right now, and a twin brother going into school next year as well.</p>
<p>As we are new to this whole process, when we received our Financial Aid info (online) we saw a Undergraduate Grant listed. Is this renewable each year?</p>
<p>hmm how do we appeal to them about our aid package?</p>
<p>is there a form to fill out?</p>
<p>Yes, $0 financial per FAFSA and large EFC middle-income family. I think that’s why son qualifies the Carnegie Scholarship [Admission</a> > Grants and Scholarships](<a href=“Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University”>Home - Computing Services - Office of the CIO - Carnegie Mellon University)</p>
<p>I hope it will work out for your son through Review request.</p>
<p>has anyone else not received their financial aid package yet?</p>
<p>i have not…and they said it was because i didn’t turn in my signed parents’ tax returns til march 30th when in fact they UPDATED it on march 30th.</p>
<p>I haven’t got mine yet. I called the admissions office last week and they said it was in the mail. I called four days after that and they said they were still reviewing it. I wouldn’t worry about it though because a lot of people are still waiting.</p>
<p>I got a really bad deal from them because my EFC is high because we were frugal and saved for college even though our income is low.
Nevertheless, I got much better aid offers from other places.</p>
<p>Will they consider any of the following as peer institutions, also which form are we speaking of.</p>
<p>USC
Boston U
Tulane</p>
<p>Thanks for any help</p>
<p>vocldad: DD also rec’d a grant. Acc to a CMU fin aid counselor, this was indeed renewable each year depending your financial situation. She also said that the % grant remains the same, so the amt changed in proportion to the total cost.</p>
<p>what did everyone with an EFC of 0 or close to 0 get in aid?</p>
<p>I received 33k in a combination of grants and loans and work-study (only 14k from CMU grants)</p>
<p>That leaves about 20k for me to pay…even though my EFC is 0</p>
<p>I love how I’ve been calling once a week for the past two months and they decide to tell me now that they need documentation to prove that I am a citizen… Why would they continually tell me that it’s in the mail when its clearly not???</p>
<p>does anybody know what the full cost of attending is? they sent me an email but all the numbers aren’t aligned so I’m kinda confused</p>
<p>So I am quite annoyed that a similar problem has just risen in my case as one of the previous posters; Carnegie suddenly decided they do not have documentation that I am a citizen. Of course this would be no big deal if they told me NOT midway through April. I also am still waiting for financial aid, but honestly the delay from the administration has really turned me off from the school in general.</p>
<p>They requested the same after DS got a school grant on showing a competitive scholarship. We fax’d a copy of his passport with a note that we accepted the grant and would matriculate.</p>
<p>^^ That may very likely be the case with me as well, since I still haven’t received any FA info. Did you guys find out by calling? It’s really ridiculous if I’ll never get anything in the mail unless I phone them specifically to find out.</p>
<p>Thinking about this,
If CMU did not admit you and you submitted a sensitive document unnecessarily, you’d kinda irritated. </p>
<p>If CMU admitted you and you did not receive money other than loans, then you won’t need a proof. </p>
<p>If CMU admitted you with financial scholarship, and you declined, then you won’t need to submit proof.</p>
<p>I take it that you are receiving a scholarship and you will matriculate.</p>