I have no idea how your business is structured. Do your parents do the business supplement?
You won’t be filling out the financial aid forms and resubmitting again…those are done. You will be asking the financial aid folks at JHU to review what you have entered to determine IF you, in fact, might qualify for some aid.
What financial advisor has told you you can “resubmit” your forms to JHU? You can’t do that.
If you have corrections to make…you need to ask JHU how to do corrections to the Profile as that is really what they use to determine need based aid.
The financial aid officer does have some discretion in terms of reviewing the entries…but it’s not like they are going to alter the factual information that you wrote on your financial aid application forms.
If you have any extenuating circumstance pieces of information to add, bring them with you to this meeting. These would include things like significant reduction of income, high unreimbursed medical expenses, etc.
@thumper1 I have a friend at Yale who says that he showed his FAFSA/CSS to a financial advisor before resending to Yale. I guess he might have meant making corrections. I’ll ask JHU.
@thumper1 They are the exception not the norm. South Carolina MBAs barely make $80k, let alone undergrads in business.
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/moore/business_solutions/hire_our_students/employment_statistics/
Imagine that. Former Bain consultant speaking here
@blossom I got a job in 2009 because of JHU, so yes ironically enough. As did classmates who had to find a new position after Lehman Brothers.
@itsgettingreal17 Did you work in McKinsey, Bain, or BCG like me or others? Getting into Deloitte federal or tech consulting is no where near as tough.
Your friend likely made corrections…because he made MISTAKES the first submission.
You can’t alter the facts on the forms…that would be fraud.
@thumper1 It’s only fraud if he knowingly lied about income or something. Clarifications and revisions to financial aid offers happen all the time
To the OP, I literally had friends that went back to Hopkins and asked for more money due to extenuating circumstances and they gave it. Doesn’t hurt to appeal at all.
@thumper1 according to him, he spoke to a financial advisor and the advisor notified him that certain statements weren’t necessary on the FAFSA and CSS. I don’t know which ones. When he made corrections by removing those statements, he went to Duke and Brown, who increased their financial aid offer to him based on those corrections. Then he went to Yale and presented those competing offers to Yale. According to him, Yale offered him an extra $20k/year after everything was said and done.
@stevensPR if you don’t mind, could you PM me some generalities of those circumstances? You’ve already seen most of my circumstances in previous posts, so if anything I have could compare to those circumstances it would really help me when I request more financial aid.
If you have already submitted the forms to JHU, you will need documentation for anything you think you would,want “removed” . You can’t just bring in a new form and hope they will take it…withput good reason to remove info.
As noted, if you made an error, that’s one thing. If you included retirement accounts with assets, for example…that would be a mistake that would need to be corrected. BUT you can’t just take financials that really exist off of the financial aid forms without some kind of documentation that you made a mistake…and that does happen. Just bring in the documentation to support your changes.
Actually…for the Profile and FAFSA, you can’t create a new document. You are already in the system with your name, birthdate and other identifying information.
By all means go back to JHU and ask them to reconsider, and I hope that it is successful for you.
But, as a side note:
The money is intended for seriously low income students- which is not you. You need to get the idea that some part of it is, or should be, ‘yours’ out of your head.
No wonder your parents are hesitant to accept JHU without considering other offers. Are they close to retirement?
Do you have a job? Work earnings and the federal student loan would cover the majority of the gap.
By all means share this with the financial aid staff at JHU. The worst that happens is that they say no.