<p>Direct from the BC website:</p>
<p>APPLYING FOR FINANCIAL AID</p>
<p>"Boston College offers a variety of grants, loans and employment to assist students in financing a Boston College education. All financial assistance, with the exception of the Presidential Scholars Program is awarded on the basis of need."</p>
<p>Yes, it's true. BC does not give merit scholarships.</p>
<p>I haven't gotten an award yet and I'm getting worried.</p>
<p>I have nothing on my Fin Aid award yet... Anyone else have the same?</p>
<p>Me neither - but they just received some of my forms yesterday. My Agora wasn't working for awhile so I didn't know that some of my documents hadn't been received.</p>
<p>i got a decent amount...i can't quite remember how much... but i do know it was the least of any school by like 10,000= can't afford to go</p>
<p>I haven't gotten anything yet. I'm getitng really nervous, I need to see the fin aid to make my decision.</p>
<p>Imac15: After filling out the CSS Profile on collegeboard.com, there was info about which schools wanted either more info, or wanted documents directly mailed to them. BC was one of these. It was a bit hard to notice the extra requirements- they showed up on the last page.</p>
<p>Some weird trends here, I would estimate my family income at around 125K and I received an award of a little over 30K not including loans and such. I do have one question though. Is the 30K a yearly thing or just for the freshmen year? I assume it is renewable, but it didn't specify so I don't want to get my hopes up too much yet.</p>
<p>33,000 scholarship
4,000 fed loans
2,200 work study</p>
<p>EFC- 12,000</p>
<p>That leaves me 15,000 short and I have a sister in college. Unfortunately college will be a financial decision.</p>
<p>Atlas216: "Some weird trends here, I would estimate my family income at around 125K and I received an award of a little over 30K not including loans and such." </p>
<p>Yes, weird indeed! We have similar income but only get loan and work study of 5.7K!</p>
<p>My EFC is like $1,300. Is it possible to get all that in scholarship? I realllly need some good aid to go to BC.</p>
<p>does boston college negotiate aid with anyone?</p>
<p>This is all so random. People with over 100,000 income getting more than lower income people. I was an EA accepted student. Received a terrible aid package. Not even worth negotiating! EFC was 3900 and they didn't even give a Pell Grant! Go Figure!</p>
<p>Income under 50,000
BC scholarship 17,600
work study 2200
loans 5,000
Total aid awarded is 24,800. </p>
<p>rest left for family to pay = $28885 ---That's more than half parent's gross pay.
They got to be kidding! </p>
<p>GOING TO HARVARD - no parental contribution and only work study and summer contribution from summer job.</p>
<p>im pretty mad with the financial aid situation-- i got nothing in financial aid and i really want to attend, so i dont know, i might have to pay full-OUCH @ 53,000 a yr itll be expensive</p>
<p>^^^^I got 7500 a yr in scholarships though at a similarly ranked university ( university of rochcester), do you think I can negotiate a deal with BC for some money??</p>
<p>If the UR money is a merit scholarship, then I doubt it, because BC does not give merit aid.</p>
<p>^ how bout a negotiation of need-based aid?</p>
<p>efc = 0
BC Scholarship = 33000
Federal S.e.o.g = 400
Federal Pell Grant = 5350
Fed sub stafford loan = 3500
Federal Perkins loan = 1500
Federal Work study = 2200</p>
<p>total award given = 46350</p>
<p>Let me start out by saying that BC was consistently "the one to beat" on my list of schools. In the end, I got into BC, Georgetown, Brown, Tufts, Duke, Villanova, Emory, Providence. </p>
<p>BC was by <em>far</em> the cheapest award from any of those schools, by thousands of dollars per year. Problem is, I got into BC via EA in December, and it seems they financially screwed all their early applicants. We even went and met with a fin aid clerk (yes, just a clerk, who had no power to do anything but bring up my award on the computer screen and stare at it blankly) and she basically told us the cupboard is bare.</p>
<p>BC COA = $53K
EFC = $42K
BC Award: $2200 Stafford unsubsidized; $2000 work study.<br>
==> $7K/yr shortfall</p>
<p>To all future potential BC applicants reading this thread in coming years: *If you need aid, DO NOT, repeat DO NOT apply EA. *</p>
<p>So, I will likely be at Brown, G'Town, Tufts, or Villanova in the Fall. I can't even put BC into the decision matrix with the lack of aid they gave. Which is a shame because, like I said, they were "the one to beat" on my list until they fell so short.</p>
<p>But I keep coming back to the BC threads on here... it's hard to come to grips with the fact that BC's off the table...</p>
<p>^^ Same for my sister, DukeofEarl. She applied to a lot of the same schools as you, and she got into several of them, and BC was the least award out of all of them. I'm not even sure they did the math right on the award letter, but she has choices that will cost our family less than BC, so whatever.</p>