How much financial aid did you get?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>Some of my forms are missing, so I did not receive an financial aid offer yet. Still, I want to get some idea of how much financial aid I can expect to get, if you don’t mind sharing.</p>

<p>Situation is pretty standard middle-class:</p>

<p>Just below 60k for a family of 4; I’m the only one who will be attending college this year.
We have a house, but have virtually no available equity on it.
No other significant assets.</p>

<p>Does BC generally supply lots of loans or are they mostly grants? I don’t really know BC’s reputation of generosity.</p>

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<p>My Family Income: 23K/yr</p>

<p>They gave me a 36K/yr scholarship.</p>

<p>Loans: 5K/yr</p>

<p>My parents pay: 5K/yr. </p>

<p>Very nice!</p>

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<p>Income: 100k
Loans: 4k
Scholarship: 14.6k
Work-study: 2.2k
Total: 20.8k
…=/</p>

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<p>EFC-$30,000
Interest Free Loans-$4,000
Scholarship-$15,000
Work-Study-$2,200</p>

<p>Extremely surprised and thrilled!</p>

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<p>Admitted to honors college.</p>

<p>27K scholarships/grants
5k loans
2 k work study</p>

<p>Parents would owe about 21k. More than 20% of our GROSS income.</p>

<p>Won’t be enrolling. MUCH better deals elsewhere. This is the worst FA package my son has gotten so far. </p>

<p>Another spot for a lucky waitlister!</p>

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<p>Ugh… I didn’t know they needed my W-2’s and everything. They never emailed us and I sent in IDOC crap to Collegeboard. Greattttt</p>

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<p>"My Family Income: 23K/yr</p>

<p>They gave me a 36K/yr scholarship.</p>

<p>Loans: 5K/yr</p>

<p>My parents pay: 5K/yr. </p>

<p>Very nice!"</p>

<p>hey, zenbadabing, how does that work? if the total cost is $54485, 54k-36k = 18k. 18k-5k (ur loan) = 13k?</p>

<p>im just wondering because mine came out very similarly to yours:</p>

<p>sibling in college; i dunno how much my parents make…(middle class)
35k BC scholarship
4.5k loans
2k work/study
= 42k aid; 54k-42k = 12k contribution per year?</p>

<p>it…still costs a little too much, i think =[</p>

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<p>when do we find out our fin aid stuff? mine was not up on the agora</p>

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<p>BC just upped my financial aid but sadly it still does not cover the 53K cost. I have to agree with Jamiecakes there are better deals out there (at least for me anyway). I do not live in MA so when you consider transportation I’ll still end up paying more than they say.</p>

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<p>My asian brotha, I forgot to mention the 5K federal grant I got.</p>

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<p>EFC: $15,300</p>

<p>Work-Study: $2200
Loans: $3500
Scholarship: $36800</p>

<p>$54,285- $42,500 = $11,785</p>

<p>I’m kind of speechless. I’d actually pay LESS than the EFC? </p>

<p>Like mooseman, I am EXTREMELY surprised and pleased!!</p>

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<p>The scholarships are annually renewable unlike the grants, right?</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^</p>

<p>Savs, what’s your families income?</p>

<p>Oh, and Congrats!</p>

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<p>They are Generous!!!</p>

<p>EFC-1k
Scholarship- 39k
Pell Grant-4,300
Work study-2,200
rest loans with about 3k uncovered</p>

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<p>Wow, they’re definitely not frugal this year.</p>

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<p>Is Asian(Chinese) population high at BC?</p>

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<p>From what I saw during my visit, it is enough.</p>

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<p>is there a facebook group for asians at Boston lol?</p>

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<p>Are the financial aid awards coming out in waves? I can’t view mine yet so I was just wondering.</p>

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<p>There’s this organization called AHANA at BC, so yeah, I guess there’s prob a face book group for it as well.</p>