<p>I am just wondering if they give good financial aid packages. Since it is one of the most expensive colleges, you would expect generosity...
Any input on this is appreciated =]</p>
<p>They better be generous, the school is expensive as crap!</p>
<p>**How generous is GW with financial aid?? </p>
<p>^agreed</p>
<p>Very -- I know of a number of students who have been granted full rides. A lot of federal aid is awarded. Merit aid is limited to academically superior students in the acceptance pool (top 10% of all accepted students I would assume).</p>
<p>They did away with a lot of merit aid this year to focus more on need based aid...who knows?</p>
<p>yeah, I got bored and read through one of the GWU pamplets and I kinda tried to figure out a rough estimate of the need based FA with the stats they gave.</p>
<p>2350 freshman, 50% freshman getting aid, 22 million purely for freshmen, ~ $18,000 per student. </p>
<p>and I heard a current GWU student say that they were being more generous this year with FA due to the financial crisis going on...</p>
<p>so, lets say my EFC was 0, and now one of my parents was laid off on top of that, would I get almost full need met?</p>
<p>My stats aren't uber (1960 sats, 3.6 gpa, diverse ec's)</p>
<p>I think you will do well with finaid but most likely have some loans in there.</p>
<p>If your EFC was 0, you can expect a very, very hefty grant from GW. The rest will be covered by federal loans- I really doubt that you would have anything not covered by fin aid. your HS grades/stats do not impact your need-based aid at all, so no worries about that. If your parents were laid off this year, it won't be reported on your taxes, but you can file a "special circumstance" form and they might grant you more aid.</p>
<p>This was posted in another thread:</p>
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I got $5500 in loans, $13450 in grants, $2200 in work study, and $30750 in scholarships 0.0</p>
<p>The total is almost $52,000. So uhm...yeah, I think I got a pretty good deal...O.O
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<p>If the COA is $52,000, then she will graduate $22k in debt. I think that's a pretty darn good financial aid package! So it IS possible. I have an EFC of 0. George Washington is downsizing their merit-aid and augmenting their need-aid as we speak. So, you and I are (hopefully) quite likely to get a ton of money. For reference purposes, I'm at the high end of the average scores for GWU.</p>
<p>They are very generous!! I think I got a good deal!!
Good luck to everyone else!!</p>