<p>I was accepted as a transfer student at Oxford. My family income is below $100,000 which should qualify me for the Emory Advantage program. I recieved the package online via Opus, and the only awards I got were Federal including the Pell Grant, some federal loans, and a work study plan. What happened to the Oxford financial aid? Scholorships? Grants? This is a complete JOKE. There is no way I can attend if I do not receive real financial aid. Basically only 10% of the total cost is included in my 'package,' so I would need to take out the rest in loans. Nice.</p>
<p>Do you have offers from any other schools?</p>
<p>This is NOT a joke. Same thing happened to me with Emory, but when I sent in an appeal (with a lot more financial documents and information), they gave me the Emory Advantage package even though I was initially denied. </p>
<p>Why don’t you try the same thing? They know that very interested students wouldn’t hesitate to call and try to work out a new package. They don’t reach out to you; you’re the one who’s supposed to do that.</p>
<p>By the way, they look at CSS too instead of just FAFSA. I think too many people are trashing Emory financial aid because they put too much weight on FAFSA when examining their packages.</p>
<p>CSS looks at:</p>
<p>home equity
trust funds held by siblings
noncustodial parent income and assets
medical and dental expenses
private school tuition
student’s summer earnings
assets owned by your family</p>
<p>It’s A LOT more detailed and complicated than your little EFC and family income #####. </p>
<p>What you provide on CSS application is used by the financial aid office to estimte what they think is best. When I sent in a bunch of additional financial aid documents and information they acquired a lot more detail to fully and effectively asses a new package based on the things listed above.</p>
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<p>alam1 is asking you that because if you have better offers from other colleges you can call Emory FA and try to get some more money by showing what those other colleges offered you. Or simply just go to that other one.</p>
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<p>Oxford has the same FA policy as Emory CAS.</p>
<p>Yes, I know there is more than just the FASFA EFC. I current go to UC Irvine and I am, to them, a “low-income student.” My parents do not make much money-- the CSS Profile and tax returns re-enforce this status. I find it frankly disrespectful. After putting in all the time and work fo the application, sending out financial forms, they do not even bother to give me any financial aid? I would receive the Pell Grant and government loans at any school, and I currently do receive them. I emailed them and they said that:</p>
<p>Based on the information from the FAFSA, Profile, and tax documents, this is the financial aid package you qualify for. The Emory Advantage program for families with assessed incomes between $50,000 - $100,000 occurs when students have reached $15,000 in need-based loans. Due to the federal loan structure, students won’t reach that amount until the senior year at Emory, and students would qualify for that program in that year.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>No, it does not really help. So basically they want me to take out a ton of loans, and then when I am a senior, apply for the Emory Advantage Program. Yeah, I think not. Bye Oxford.</p>
<p>So you’re not even gonna give them a second chance by appealing?</p>