<p>has anyone had any success getting more money out of rice? was it through a financial aid appeal or using other scholarship offers as leverage?
post your story. thanks</p>
<p>you havent gotten your financial aid package yet unless I am mistaken…</p>
<p>mine has been online under the financial aid requirements>Financial Aid award letter since friday</p>
<p>Maybe post under Financial Aid forums?</p>
<p>hmm. Id definitely email them and ask. If there is a discrepancy between your EFC and what Rice is giving you its worth an appeal</p>
<p>Rice gave us 10K less than our EFC. We are surprised since we thought that they are one of the better university for FA. I emailed them last week but nothing back. They are by far the worst when it came to FA for us and this is comparing them to JHU, Case, Brandeis. I won’t count Washu and Tulane since we were lucky enough to get full merit tuition scholarship to those schools (sooo happy!!!)</p>
<p>Hmm… interesting how everyone says Rice is giving them not enough financial aid. I am guessing that your family income has to be <$80,000 to get a really good financial aid package. Mine is $78,000, EFC is $5270 according to FAFSA. I’m getting $38,390 in grants and $1800 for work-study, so my family contribution is $6570.</p>
<p>yeah i got an awesome financial aid package…practically for free (about 6k/year)</p>
<p>rice seems useless for those above ~80K. I’m at 150K and I got barely 7000 from Rice, but Northwestern gave me over 20K. How lame is that…</p>
<p>150K is substantially greater than $80K! In 5 years of Rice financial aid, our EFC has always been the same as our FAFSA EFC. But if we made 150K, we’d be happy to get $7000 in aid from Rice and we’d be thanking them for being so generous! :)</p>
<p>Not to be a ****** but getting 150K means Jack ■■■■ depending on where you live and what other expenses you have.</p>
<p>my family is in the 100k range, and the EFC was about 18k (which is actually less than the FAFSA EFC). rice met the rest with a grant and a loan, but 18k is still too much so i think i’ll have to talk to them about certain circumstances. 100k is NOT a lot at all in SoCal, especially when putting 4 kids through private school AND when your dad works for the state, meaning BUDGET CUTS</p>
<p>In the 100k range as well, FAFSA’s EFC is 15k while Rice’s EFC is 34k…</p>