<p>Ok. So the FinAid office sent me a letter that I am missing a doc. It's a really simple doc that shows my permanent residence status. So as soon as I get this in, they said they would be able to tell me the FinAid award decision.</p>
<p>My parents make about 31K a year with a registered #family members of 5. (Dad, stepmom, stepbro, stebsis, me.) All the UCs have offered me about 13-15K in grants out of the total cost around 23K/year at their instutitions.</p>
<p>Considering Cornell's cost of ed (College of Engineering) is around 43K, what do you think are the possibilities of, and the reasonable amount of financial aid I could expect? I just want to figure this out though it would be just a prediction before the actual award letter.</p>
<p>Anyone in my shoes in terms of the family circumstances?</p>
<p>IF columbia fin. aid is anything similar to Cornell then I'll tell you:
my friend's single mom made around 25k and family size of 4, he only had to pay about 3-4k a year..no loans. he got some sort of scholarship that met his fin. need, that may happen for you aswell at Cornell (maybe)</p>
<p>That's cool. Anyone else?</p>
<p>depending on how much EFC you are expected to pay (minimum of 1K from your parents and around 2K from summer contribution) if you are coming in cold (no outside scholarship) you'll get about 5-6K in loans, 2K in federal work study, and the rest in grants/scholarships given by cornell. It'll cost less (in terms of loans) to go to cornell than UC since that was what the UCs offered me as well when I applied a couple of years ago. I replaced all my loans w/tradition and other scholarships.</p>
<p>you can join tradition if you are not invited freshman year, and you will get an extra 4K each year you fulfill their requirement (250 hours of employment, 75 hours of leadership/athletics/volunteering, 2.3gpa?). </p>
<p>hope that helps.</p>
<p>Wow. My EFC is 832 dollars. So I feel like I have a pretty good chance at getting a good amount of aid, right?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, quynh2007. :)</p>
<p>when can I expect to receive the big , fat package anyway? It's almost apr. 5. They were sent out apr 1st right? I can't wait. Its the Finaid package in there or will it be sent a coupla days later? My family makes $100,000 or even more a year, and we only have 3, 4 members ( depends on how you cut it) .btw i live in arizona, u of arizona offered me basically full ride tuition with 3000 extra to help room, board, books, etc. My parents plan to contribute $10,000 tops, which is barely a fourth of tuition, I plan to do summer contribution of 2 to 3 k. Otherwise, almost no scholarship , just one, so i'm almost coming in cold. I'm permanent resident, and the financial aid form went fairly smoothly i think. How much aid can I reasonably assume I can get if any? I'm apprehensive about graduating with a big debt and having to pay for medical school myself then after I exhaust my parents' contributions. I really like Cornell now, so it's a hard decision.</p>
<p>IF dartmouth fin aid is anything similar to Cornell's then I'll tell you:</p>
<p>My friend who's going to Brown w/ her family making 120k / year for 4 people is getting 0 dollars in aid. :(</p>
<p>shawn, the best you'll get is loans probably because your family makes too much money unless you have another family member in college or something, it is highly unlikely you will get aid.</p>
<p>oh well, that's too bad.. I guess I will go to state u then. That seems to be the best financial option I can have. I live with my mom, stepfather, stepbrother(most part of the year,rest of the time w/ his mom), family of 4, total income between 100,000 to 120,000 range. My biological dad won't be able to contribute much, almost nothing in money. I love Cornell, but I guess no aid means no attending. Nice knowing all of you guys though. I really wouldn't want to end up with a huge loan debt at graduation, considering I still want to save and attend med school.</p>