<p>Hey, I was wondering if Vandy had a financial aid policy similar to Duke or Rice where if a student's family's income is less than a certain amount, their expenses were covered totally by grants and work study rather than loans?</p>
<p>Duke's is for family incomes of less that 40,000
Rice is for under 80,000
(I think Emory may have a similar policy)</p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>[Vanderbilt</a> University: Expanded Aid Program](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/expandedaidprogram/]Vanderbilt”>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/expandedaidprogram/)</p>
<p>Yeah, I think Brown has something similar to that, as well.</p>
<p>Vandy uses the FAFSA, along with the CSS Profile and their own formula to determine their own EFC number. Now, they include some estimated incidental expenses in their Cost of Attendance meaning if your Vandy EFC is 0, then I believe they will actually cut you a check to cover books, travel, etc. My Vandy EFC is a little lower than my FAFSA EFC - I’m only a single data point, but clearly they don’t increase everyone’s EFC so that they don’t have to cover as much - I think they clearly want to greatly eliminate the cost barrier for poor class, working class and some middle class families.</p>
<p>there’s no way Rice has that good of a financial aid program. The aid duke offered me was twice that of the one Rice offered me. but Vandy topped them all.</p>
<p>I found Rice’s financial aid offer to be extremely poor.</p>