<p>According to its financial aid policy, UVA meets each admitted student's full demonstrated need. Sounds wonderful, but what does that actually mean for OOS students? Despite this pledge, do most OOS students still get burdened with near-full tuition in the end?</p>
<p>Personally, I didn’t. I’m getting grants for ~half OOS tuition. They also offered a little less than 10k in loans which I won’t need. Overall they really treated me right, I’m pretty pumped.</p>
<p>That is very comforting to know that not everyone is getting stiffed, and I’m glad you were able to make UVA work. </p>
<p>I’m just afraid that because my family is in the 100-150k range we’ll automatically be saddled with a 42k tuition bill (which is not realistic at all with three younger siblings in private school). I guess I’m trying to decide whether to cut UVA off of my already-too-big list since it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to afford it. (Which stinks since uva is amazing)</p>
<p>double post…sorry</p>
<p>Don’t count it out with that income. I don’t know how they calculate everything, but that’s the range of my family income. However, my parents are divorced and out of about 150k, about 120k comes from my noncustodial parent. No idea how they factor that stuff differently, if they do at all. In any case, you can’t go wrong just applying to UVA.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that none of us are aid officers, but there are some calculators on the SFS website that might help you get an idea about a package. UVa requires you to submit a supplement to the federal aid forms which is meant to give them more detail into your family’s situation.</p>
<p>Demonstrated need is typically based upon your FAFSA-determined Expected Family Contribution and supplemental forms required by UVA. UVA will ask information about your non-custodial parent, since many non-custodial parents will often still contribute to their child’s education (…and in recent days, some parents divorce/separate just so that their child may get more financial aid). </p>
<p>As an example, my parents are divorced, but my custodial parent was the only parent that contributed to my education (and she could not contribute much), family income was approx. 34k/year and I received approx. 26k/year in grants as an OOS student. I graduated with some loans, but a good part of that was due to wanting to take summer courses.</p>