<p>Well, guys not to suggest anything, but if you apply Early, whether ED or EA, don’t they usually give you less aid?</p>
<p>Because you applied early?</p>
<p>^ iMac15: Yes, in the case of BC it appears so, hence my admonition to future generations to avoid BC EA if you expect to need finaid. </p>
<p>Many of the other schools tend to hold off until RD is done and then give FA info to all EA/ED/RD applicants at once. At least that is my understanding for Georgetown and Villanova. But I have enough students from my school who got into BC EA and RD (4 of us EA; I think 9 or 10 RD) and comparing awards informally it is clear that BC held back on EA awards this year. </p>
<p>It will be interesting to see how deep into their waiting list they have to go this year… hope for their sake it is a long one.</p>
<p>I sent in my tax forms five days ago and they still haven’t processed them. Must be a peak period… Anyone else not get an award yet?</p>
<p>About the EA thing… I was accepted EA, but didn’t get my forms in in time to find out my award early. So I only received my FA award a few weeks ago, and it was very generous. So maybe my not turning in the forms helped? LOL. I guess it’s something to think about…</p>
<p>Financial aid doesn’t change based on regular vs. early. If you are dissatisfied with your aid, it has nothing to do with the fact you applied early. I know someone in my grade whose finances are similar to mine and he received nothing while I received more than 25,000 per year. He applied regular i applied early. Schools determine financial aid primarily through a complicated function where they input key financial numbers off of what you submit. It doesn’t matter whether you applied early or not.</p>
<p>P.S. BC is notoriously skimpy on their financial aid. Tufts and BU’s amount of aid per year for me were within 500 of each others, while BC’s was about 7,000 less.</p>
<p>EA vs. RD has no bearing on your FA package. </p>
<p>Since BC’s aid is entirely NEED-BASED (unlike some of the other schools cited in this thread), you can’t really compare your offer with your friend’s offer – unless you know all the nitty-gritty details of their family’s finances and how they compare to your own family’s.</p>
<p>I still haven’t received an award letter and i’ve been faxing, refaxing, and faxing my 1040’s again. Am i less likely to get money since this is kind of late? </p>
<p>): I’m really worried since BC is my top choice.</p>
<p>^^ So lilcoons1995, because of the fact that BC gave you less, they are “notoriously skimpy”?</p>
<p>what!! they gave me a MEASLY package compared to you guys =/</p>
<p>efc (according to fafsa): 23,000
BC scholarship: 3,300
fed stafford loan: 3,500
work-study: 2,200</p>
<p>BC gave me the worst package out of all the schools so far. even nyu (the supposed worst college w/ fin aid) gave me considerably more!</p>
<p>^^ espn: When you go through the threads in here and see how much BC low-balls against all of their competitors, it seems like they stand out ni that regard a little bit more than the rest. In general, when it comes to being compared to other schools equal to BC (Georgetown, Duke, Villanova, Notre Dame, Loyola, Tufts, GWU), BC notoriously awards thousands less than the other schools in their band. Go back and look at prior year threads on this – it is consistent, and is probably a matter of policy set by their FA director, etc. It’s just that this year it may not work too well in their favor, as they lose top students to the other colleges that actually reacted properly to the changed economy.</p>
<p>If you personally got good money from them, espn, then congratulations. But based on my own family’s situation this year, I believe BC does, as a rule, try to get out of it cheap wherever possible. And there is enough of a pattern from others on here to ignore it as a likely general trend.</p>
<p>^I’d heard from various people (current BC students and people who were accepted but couldn’t go because of financial stuff) that BC is known for bad FA. So I was expecting to get bad FA. It turned out that, of all my schools (except Flagship U), BC gave me the best FA. So there is a general pattern… but there are breaks there, too.</p>
<p>Absolutely, Savs. It’s really an erratic process overall.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if any of the BC aid is guaranteed all four years?</p>
<p>I think you reapply each year, in order to adjust the amount of aid they give you, as incomes fluctuate.</p>
<p>Man I hope this isn’t true. Honestly I want the hoo-rah-rah and big University Atmosphere while still getting a good education. BC is pretty much my top choice. I still haven’t received my award but then again I barely got them my W-2’s about a week ago. My mother’s a student, my dad’s a firefighter who works another job, our income here in Texas is around 90,000. I am the oldest of 5 kids though, and a first generation college student. </p>
<p>Good Lord I hope I get enough to go.</p>
<p>Personally I want my aid to be guaranteed over the four years I wouldn’t want to worry each year wondering how much aid I’m going to get</p>
<p>sorry i meant scholarship/merit aid… incomes and such can change… I’d just like to know there was at least something I was guaranteed</p>
<p>I heard a rumor that after a certain amount of people they stop giving people financial aid and expect people to pay full? </p>
<p>i realllllllly hope thats not the case haha, but can anyone verify?</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten my financial aid. This is getting really annoying.</p>
<p>Me neither. I hope I get it by next week, so that I can make a more proper decision between this school and BU. </p>
<p>I mailed out my tax forms on like, April 5th? Given that it takes three days to reach their office and possibly another two days to process it, it’s a slightly longer wait than usual.</p>