How much will your parents pay?
edit- deleted the OOS question.
@lookingforward The whole thing 
Next to Northwestern it’s a bargain! That’s the perfect sales pitch to get them on board (since the funds are there). Nice work. =D>
@CaliCash I am glad everything is working out. You have learned something important about how your parents deal with money. I would plan to financially disentangle yourself from them as soon as possible. And in the future if need financial help with the kinds of things adult children sometimes need help with (down payments, weddings, etc) go into it with your eyes wide open.
CaliCash, you’ve really EARNED this!
You and your parents worked extremely hard to come off of zero and converge on an option that makes sense for the whole family. Much better than many folks on here told you to settle for! Kudos to all of you. I predict that you will make them proud!
Game winning touchdown as far as I’m concerned! Game over!
You are gonna love UF!
Great outcome, CaliCash. Congratulations!
I’ll glad you were able to talk to your parents, better now than later. UF seems to really want you* and you will be very happy there!
*My son got a terrible FA package from one school, really way way way lower than expected, and he just could not understand that they would want him to attend when they knew our financial details and his test scores and still offered next to nothing.
OK now I get it Go UF!!! 1978 hahahahahahahahahaaaaa :))
Go gators!!!
@rhandco Was your son in-state? I know the year I applied, UF did a lot of top students dirty. :-w
@CaliCash This is great news, congratulations!
Not that this matters, but for those who are looking to file appeals with Northwestern in the future, my financial aid appeal was very successful. I’m not gonna to attend, but my aid increased from $21,000 to $38,000. My grant money increased by $10,000 and they gave me work study and a loan.
Wow, that’s a terrific outcome from your appeal! Even though you are not attending, that must make you feel pretty good: they wanted you that much
@CaliCash lol smh
Lol, don’t kill me, but I’m going to Northwestern now. The office of financial aid called me and apparently, I wouldn’t be a full pay student once my sibling leaves college. Because their tuition roughly $6,000, I would be paying that much more in subsequent years provided everything else stays the same. Not the $70,000 that I had initially thought and was led to believe. At the meeting, the woman had said we would be paying more, and I assumed that would be full tuition, but it wouldn’t be. NU would only be about $18,000 more than UF or maybe even $12,000 depending on when my sibling graduates. In addition, I was choosing UF for the wrong reasons. Aside from money, I was selling myself short because I was scared of NU. I saw the students and how bright they were and I was terrified that I wouldn’t be good enough and that it would be too rigorous. But I am a competitive person and I would thrive in that environment. I wouldn’t be sitting in classes taught by grad students for two years at NU and I would be around students of a higher caliber than that of UF. I know I must be driving you all crazy lol. But my heart just wasn’t in the right place. When I spoke to my parents, they told me they would make it work (especially with more clarity after the call with NU). No more lavish vacations, or at least fewer. So, that’s where I’m going No looking back.
Congratulations!!! <:-P
WOW, what a ride… how many ups and downs for you! And in the end, your parents agreed to sacrifice their vacations for your education, which they hadn’t considered before, and this thanks to the NU phone call no one was expected.
But you’re right: you’d have done well at UF, no doubt, but your heart was set on NU for the right reasons (journalism, the academics), and you’ll thrive there.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I love this ending even better!
Make sure you’re parents know how much you appreciate them. I mean it!
Congrats!!!