Macalester College Early Decision for Fall 2022 Admission

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A lot less than the NPC indicated. Not affordable. :frowning:

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Oh sorry I didn’t read the question right. I heard it from students on social media platforms.

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Thank you. We felt the financial aid was less than we expected and about 8-10K less than the NPC indicated.

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Ours was just right. Mac is on the table.

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Mac’s merit award was nice, but then the school offered my D22 no additional FA. So the total award was about $5000 less than the NPC predicted – and that’s before Mac’s tuition and room/board went up several thousand dollars. Macalester is looking very unlikely now. :frowning_face:

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I may have mentioned this before, but I did have a successful financial aid appeal-- I’d recommend asking for a Zoom chat specifically so that you’re not just another piece of paper, and explaining circumstances/competing offers/etc!

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nope, I ignore the loans/employment numbers. I was shocked to see any $$, wasn’t expecting a penny.

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Ours is about at FAFSA amount with loans and Work-Study. Actually it’s better than expected.

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Our cost is about 4k more than expected via NPC - we’ll wait for other offers since the money makes Mac less attractive. To be fair, it may turn out the same for other schools since my husband is a small business owner.

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We ran the NPC for Macalester earlier in Spring 2021 and again in the fall. It went up a lot (about $7,500). I was worried Mac might be out of the running. We were pleasantly surprised when the final offer ended up less than the Spring NPC.

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the $7,500 increase in cost from 21-22 school year to 22-23 seems significant. I saw the total price and I went wow that seems different than what I remembered.

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The increase was for our NPC, not the total cost without aid. I think that went up about $2,000. I figured they changed their methodology, but we were happy that the actual aid was better.

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I was just looking on the cost on Scoir (which I thought was 21-22) and it was about a 7.5k difference. I may dig a bit deeper on this!

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Also wanted to add for anyone curious, my DS received identical merit from Macalester, Clark, and WPI - to the penny. Then he got decent FA from Macalester - and nothing from the other two, or any of the other 8 schools he got in. So even though the cost is 76K for 22-23, Macalester is giving some significant FA and merit combos.

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