<p>Accepted into Leavey!!! :)</p>
<p>congratulations everyone! I am almost positive I’ll go there, it is my first choice…however, I am waiting on the financial aid package!! I guess that will be the ultimate decision factor…how soon after recieving your acceptance package did you find out about how much you were being granted in financial aid??</p>
<p>Me too! My mum just received my acceptance in the mail yesterday and we are still waiting on the financial aid package…it has come down to Santa Clara and Chapman.</p>
<p>congratulations!</p>
<p>Well, I got my financial aid package…NOT good. I only got about 5000 in a loan which is barely 10% of the huge tuition cost…</p>
<p>this is my first time applying for college, and my parents are foreign so we don’t really know too much about this whole process…is there anything I can do at this point to get more money, loans, scholarships? Santa Clara is my first choice but my parents can not realistically shell out 45,000 dollars a year for me…</p>
<p>@iloveecon</p>
<p>I would try the Financial Aid Forums since your question concerns international parents. I would have mentioned ParentPLUS loans, but I don’t know if your parents would qualify. And beyond that, I rarely recommend anyone going into deep debt for undergraduate degree (students and parents).</p>
<p>For the student going in for a “practical” degree 20K is generally seen as doable, maybe even up to 50K (total for the entire undergraduate degree) for those who are not risk adverse.</p>
<p>For the parent paying into the degree (with savings or extra loans) the question needs to be a serious look at their retirement - I generally advise parents to not put retirement into jeopardy - but what that means in terms of how much to pay out or take out in loans will vary for each family.</p>
<p>Tough situation. Sounds like SCU will cost you full freight of 45K a year, of which 5K so far has been tagged as coming from a student loan. Do you have a better financial offer from Chapman? Other UCs/CSUs?</p>
<p>thanks annika! My parents are going to try and appeal so we will see what happens!</p>
<p>@iloveecon</p>
<p>You say your parents are foreign. Does that mean they are not US citizens? Are you a US citizen? I am just wondering if you are classified as an “International Student” because at least according to SCU’s website they do not give financial aid to internationals.</p>
<p>From SCU website: “If you are an international student planning to enroll at SCU, you and your family must assume the total cost of a Santa Clara education. Financial aid is not available to undergraduate international students.”</p>
<p>Of course, it doesn’t hurt to ask, especially to clarify whether or not you are considered international.</p>
<p>From what I read on this forum and others, it doesn’t appear that SCU is particularly generous with financial aid. My son was accepted at SCU a few years ago and would have attended, but the aid offered just didn’t match what other schools were offering. I appealed our award to SCU, but to no avail. In the end my son ending up attending a lower ranked university, though things have turned out well for him. Nevertheless, with an endowment of over $500 million - [About</a> Santa Clara University - Budget](<a href=“http://www.scu.edu/about/budget.cfm]About”>About SCU - Santa Clara University) - I wish they were a little more forthcoming with grants. I have another child who will be applying there in a few months!</p>
<p>@iloveecon</p>
<p>Have you decided where you’re going??</p>
<p>Hey im applying as a sophomore transfer and am completely nervous for the decisions. Do you know when they come out? And what my chances are? I go to UCI and have a 3.4 cumulative and got a 3.67 last quarter. I got accepted in high school too. I applied to School of Arts and Sciences.</p>