<p>My EFC is 0, NU gave me around 49k grants and 2.5k work-study. No loans. Great package.</p>
<p>I love NU!</p>
<p>I got around 21k in aid, about 16k of which is grant money…eh, could be worse</p>
<p>Got 26K, 21K was grant. I wasn’t going to consider it until they decided to fly me out to Wildcat Days!</p>
<p>I wonder how many people they decided to fly out. We can request to see a financial counselor while there, right?</p>
<p>ananya, did you get a merit based scholarship? or is what you got all need based?</p>
<p>I just activated my account. WHY CAN’t I LOG INTO CAESARS?!?!?</p>
<p>hmm my financial aid package was good, but still not enough. How do I go about asking for more?</p>
<p>@ananya</p>
<p>Wow, that is quite generous of them. EFC of 36k here and they offered us 16k in grants.</p>
<p>I have an EFC of $7,800 and they’re giving me about $43k in grant money, $2,500 in work study, and $6k in loans. I’m going to appeal because my special circumstances kept my EFC from being very accurate (needs to be much lower). Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the aid package. Hopefully I can attend in the fall!</p>
<p>The amount they ask my family to pay is over 3 times our EFC :/</p>
<p>The amount they’re asking me to pay is 1471 times my EFC…definitely appealing. (10300 vs 00007)</p>
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Nice package but you don’t get $2500 for work study. That is an estimate of what you could possibly earn and it’s better to think of that being used for personal expenses. You still need to figure out where to come up with the $2500 or approx $833 per semester shortfall you will have and it very may well have to be a loan unless you have a savings/checking account to draw it from.</p>
<p>^This thread was a necro from last year. I’m sure they’ve figured it out by now.</p>
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Thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t even see that it was a resurrected thread. Oh well, it may help some others who are uninformed.</p>