<p>Just curious if people have been able to check their financial aid/scholarship packages through the prospective student portal…</p>
<p>i did...not good.</p>
<p>What kind of money are they giving you? After all they are rated as best value!</p>
<p>American is most definitely not a best value at full cost</p>
<p>We were able to view the financial aid package this morning; I'll wait to see it in writing, but so far, it won't be enough to make AU happen. There's a 10K gap between our need and the package posted, and AU is the only school which has gapped us. However, we have no way of knowing if this is the final package, so it's back to waiting for the letter.</p>
<p>i got 9,000</p>
<p>but 7 of that was in loans</p>
<p>i need about 10 in grant money to be able to go...</p>
<p>i checked on my portal on my propspective student portal and set up a my AU accoung---neither of them had any financial awards (merit ) packages under them ----it says you have no financial aid awards for this period or something----i got my e-mail on friday so my decision was one of the first ones out---------does anyone think this means i got ----$O</p>
<p>ugggggggggghhhh just found out my financial aid... not good... 9000 a year.</p>
<p>arm...my daughter got her email on Fri as well and she too has nothing when she logs in. It may be that they haven't gotten around to posting everyone's yet. I also know we will not qualify for any need based aid, so I wonder if since we won't get aid, the scholarship won't be on the site at all and if we will just have to wait for the package in the mail. I wouldn't worry if I were you.</p>
<p>yankee, if they are doing it the same way this year as they did last spring, they will post merit scholarships regardless of whether or not your daughter applied for need-based aid. i did not apply for need-based aid but my merit scholarship was posted online before i got my acceptance packet. the amount listed online was the same as what was quoted in my acceptance packet, though this may not be the same for everyone.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info 7Oreve! I checked for her againg this afternoon but nothing is there. Guess we will just keep waiting.</p>
<p>you also need to make sure you pick the right period. It is automatically set to 2005-2006 you need to change it 2006-2007. When I looked it said, "no financial aid awards for this period or something," but when I changed it 2006-2007 it had 26,000 in aid (from different things of course).</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if scholarships are included in the aid package online?</p>
<p>as i said, my merit scholarship was listed online, and other people (see <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=155986%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=155986</a>) have broken down their finaid packages shown online, and they had both merit and need-based aid listed. you never know though, wait for the accetance package for final info.</p>
<p>Alright so i didnt even recieve an email but as you know i got an email address so i know i got in. I got 15K a year from a merit scholarship and my really talented friend got 25K a year from a merit scholarship(but he did recieve an email). Thats pretty good! Of course I got nothing from the government and while I got a federally unsubsidized loan im not going to take it. This makes the decision very interesting!</p>
<p>I did forward to next year....still nothing, we just keep waiting.</p>
<p>i got 16k, but thats wayyy too low, looks like au is soon to be off my list.</p>
<p>$23,275!</p>
<p>$13,650 AU Grant
$2625 Federal Loan
$2000 Work Study
$5000 AU Loan</p>
<p>I haven't even gotten an acceptance email or packet in the mail. This is kinda cool.</p>
<p>For the people that got grants... what was your efc?</p>
<p>i got accepted with honors into their program with the big wave of emails, but my online portal never changed to show my admission status. my friend who also got accepted told me that scholarships were posted in the portal the other day, but i still don't have anything posted in mine. i didn't apply for financial aid, so that might have something to do with it, but my stats are really competitive for scholarships. my friend got $25000 a year, and his stats were very similar to mine:
34 ACT
99.6 avg
15/almost 500 rank
did something like this happen to anyone else?
i havent recieved the paper acceptance yet... but that seems like a lot of people havent. i'm confused about why it isnt in my portal- should it only be in the admitted students portal? im so confused, i have an au id in my prospective portal, but nothing else. ergh any help would be great thanks</p>
<p>My D got 15,000, but that is nothing! Basically room and board for the year. I thought they gave better merit aid.</p>