<p>Just out of curiosity, how many schools is everyone else applying too and how many of those are safety schools (that is, if you are deferred from Georgetown.) If accepted I wouldn't apply anywhere else, but if deferred I'm thinking of applying to about maybe 8 others with 2 of them being solid safety schools.</p>
<p>I'm applying to 6 maybe 7 other schools regardless of whether I get into Gtown EA because I won't get my financial aid statement from Georgetown till April. I can't afford to go there without fin aid and I need to apply to financial safties as well as academic ones. I got 2-3 solid safties.</p>
<p>akajjred what are your finincial aid safeties?</p>
<p>(stu i'm applying to 7 schools, one is a complete safety)</p>
<p>Financial Aid Safties=UCD and UCLA. My parents can pay $25,000 a year for college max with loans, so UC is ok, but I am gonna need a lot of help to pay $45,000 a year.</p>
<p>Well, the good thing about GU is that they offer up to 100% aid!
I'm applying to...7? schools, including GU. Only one is a financial safety, because I know for a fact I'll get in, and I have 2 other safeties, they rest are kinda reaching for the stars...</p>
<p>since gtown is a super reach for me, it would be awesome if i got in, but on the otherhand i'm applying to 9 other schools..5 of them early action.</p>
<p>Yea, Vogueprada they may offer 100% financial aid, but they dictate what your need is and they can pile on the loans all they want. Loans count as meeting financial aid. Kind of tragic nowdays how the middle class kids get screwed. The real poor people get huge grants, the rich people can already pay, and the middle class kids get hit with huge loans.</p>
<p>im applying to 8 other schools, with two definite safeties (i've already been accepted to my state U)</p>
<p>13 others. 2 of those are safeties (KU, Michigan), 4(ish) matches, the rest dream schools.</p>
<p>ahhhhhhh i know EXACTLY what you mean akajjred...</p>
<p>the poorer kids obviously need aid, but middle class kids seem like they should be able to pay...</p>
<p>except when you think about it, you're asking a family to spend 50k more a year than it would normally.</p>
<p>that's ridiculous... i mean, even upper middle class families don't have $200,000 laying around.</p>
<p>Yea, obviously the poor kids NEED the aid, but so do the middle class kids. We need some help too. I can get a loan anywhere, why does that count as financial aid? I think the federal government needs to provide more funds for student aid. Don't pump all the money into the public colleges.</p>