<p>So how do we set up a job for the fall semester? Is there something we need to send in over the summer if we have work-study?</p>
<p>You can start looking at the student employment site:
<a href=“https://financialaid.brown.edu/JobX_Home.aspx[/url]”>https://financialaid.brown.edu/JobX_Home.aspx</a></p>
<p>Alternatively, if you wait until orientation, you can get a job with Dining Services (BuDS) that will likely fit your schedule and your work-study. Though you’ll want to see them on the first day you can, because the good shifts fill up fast (even though, provided you don’t mind working at Joe’s on wednesday nights, there will almost always be SOMETHING available for you). This is what I did my freshman year (and typically, there are enough jobs available at Brown so that even if you’re not on work-study, you can find something to pay you. Which isn’t true for some of my friends at other colleges).</p>
<p>Does Brown no longer give kids of federal work/study a grant to waive it the first year?</p>
<p>BrownParent-- No, Brown no longer waives Work Study the first year. When they discontinued loans for families under whatever the limit was (60K?) they eliminated that waiver, and asked students to work instead. Seems fair.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to work (which could make sense, depending on how highly you value your free time/what your earnings potential is after college/whether you have on off-campus job), they almost always allow you to take out subsidized loans to cover your work study (unless Brown’s EFC is less than the federal EFC. Then you may have to take unsubsidized).</p>
<p>Much better to work than have more loans.</p>
<p>I agree with fireandrain. Students loans are overwhelming. I can tell you this from personal experience. Its a constant burden on your shoulders and its always in the back of your mind. Do all you can to work and save money to pay for school; its the best financial plan for your future.</p>
<p>Also, it was mentioned in passing, but your future earning potential probably will not be hindered in anyway by working while youre in school (unless of course you fail, but thats probably not related to working anyhow, but poor study habits).</p>