Parent reneges on financial commitment to Brown

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<p>sybbie, thanks.</p>

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The point that I am trying to make that if the student does indeed find and get outside scholarships, it is still not going to help her cause as far as Brown is concerned because any outside scholarships would first clear up her self help aid (work studies and loans that the school gave her as part of their financial aid package. Under their new FA plan, she probably won’t have any).

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<p>We don’t know whether it will help or not. We don’t have the details. We don’t know how that $15K broke down; we know from the OP’s post how the family was going to cover the gap between Brown’s largesse and the COA – dad, $7.5K; mom, $7.5K – but we don’t know what Brown was including in its largesse. Student contribution? Maybe, or maybe, that’s covered in the $15K. </p>

<p>Brown may be expecting her to earn $3K/summer. Does Brown’s financial aid typically expect a student to earn money during the summer for tuition? Is that $3K part of the $15K the mom and dad were going to split? Is her dad going to come East so a bunch of us can slap him? </p>

<p>I don’t know. Can I hope that the answer to one or more of those questions is yes? :D</p>