<p>sorry for my being unclear, contribution i mean the money you can pay per year towards tuition, room and board. It can be seen on ISFAA and Certification of Finance documents. If you are an US resident, it is the CSS Profile or FAFSA. 2 friends I know are rejected from EA pool with 2100 SAT scores but can only pay under $20k/year.</p>
<p>hangmy95-- I’m assuming you are international student? If so, PC is definately “need aware” for international students – meaning they take your financial ability to pay in consideration. I’m not sure if they are completely need blind for US applicants, but it does not play the same role in admissions. My D was accepted EA and we are firmly middle, middle class. We would qualify for and need some financial aid in order to attend, even though PC was very kind with some merit aid. Also since they are test optional, I suspect strength of academic program and GPA will be weighted much higher than high SATS.</p>
<p>@goldendong1: yes, there’s difference in intl students and US applicants. I have read my friend’s rejection letter and it clearly says that his academic is good but the school cannot meet his financial need so he got rejected. May I ask what merit scholarship your D got?</p>
<p>For the early action deadline of Nov 1, FAFSA’s were not required to be filed yet. The CSS was due on Dec 1. So are you saying based on the CSS and whether on your Admission application you said you needed financial aid or not, they factor that into their admission decision?</p>
<p>And need blind schools don’t do this?</p>
<p>Hangmy95 - My D got a 9K Friars scholarship</p>
<p>@academic12: I think it’s different among international students and US residents. PC look at international students’ financial forms during the reviewing process, the financial forms are also marked in my application checklist. If you are an US, then don’t worry about financial issue much.</p>
<p>PC offers interviews?! I repeatedly contacted my admissions counselor for an off-campus interview (I’m in CA, and my family couldn’t afford to travel to campus) and never got one. I wanted to schedule an official interview, but all he offered was his cell number to call “if * had any questions about the school.” </p>
<p>Hope this doesn’t hurt my chances, especially since I applied RD.</p>
<p>Yes, they do interviews (did one last summer, actually).</p>
<p>@RedRussian3 they won’t hold it back against you, good luck!</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted EA. Waiting for financial award. Praying I can afford to send her.</p>
<p>Same! Does anyone know how PC is at continuing aid throughout the 4 years of attendance? I don’t want to allow my daughter to go only to have to transfer her junior or senior year if her aid doesn’t continue. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>You have to submit your FASFA every year. As long as your financial situation stays the same they give you about the same award.</p>
<p>Really? That’s great! Someone told me they were notorious for giving great packages to freshmen (to get them in) but then didn’t continue to provide families the same level of assistance as upperclassmen, even if their financial situation remained the same.</p>
<p>FYI – PC is now requiring the FAFSA and CSS profile all four years. This is a new change.</p>
<p>I spoke to financial aid yesterday. I told them I am just getting my taxes back today and would need a new estimate before I could accept. They told me it may not be done by May 1. How could I possibly accept when I dont know if the number is actual? Im upset because I know she would be happy there but I can go into this blindly.</p>
<p>With EA, we got an estimated package. D loves school, but we can’t afford it</p>
<p>Are there any PC parents that can tell me (from past experience) how confident I can be that the “tentative” financial aid package we received would actually be the one we get once we send in our deposit AND assuming our financial situation stays same, that we will receive a similar package each year? Thanks!</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten a revised package after the initial offer for EA?</p>
<p>Same as GoldenDog, D loves it, but can’t afford.</p>
<p>No on the revised package, admissions said they review again after March 15th based on a phone call a couple of weeks ago. URI-bound, wallet and head are happy, heart is not.</p>