<p>Let your parents pay the 10,000 per year and you borrow the 4000. At the end of your 4 years you would have less than the average amount of the recommended debt that an undergrad should take on.</p>
<p>IF you start out with 1500 you will definitely have enough to pay for books. Unless you are a hardcore shopper there is very little money to be spent in Hanover with even an occasional dinner "out" at Molly's costing less than $20.</p>
<p>If you can get through the first term without working, I would recommend that you do so as the quarter system does go by at brakeneck speed and does take some getting used to.</p>
<p>Even if you are not eligible for federal work study, if you want you can always get a job on campus</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eseo/jobnet.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~seo/jobnet.html</a></p>
<p>click jobnet (within the text not on the side bar)
set your criteria
search</p>
<p>all the best.</p>