<p>I got accepted :) after two months (including the time it took for my transcript to be lost/resent).</p>
<p>I was also awarded the 21.5K AJ Drexel Scholarship, so I'm pretty happy.</p>
<p>But I'm also a bit worried, because the still leaves my bill at roughly 34K...I plan to apply for FA, but not sure how much I'd get because my parents worked most of the last year (mom, PT for 3/4 the yr; dad, FT all yr), and I've had a few hours a week at a restaurant since junior yr, and only just began a second job working ~7 hrs a week at a daycare...(grand total of 14 hrs/wk for the last 2 months from ~2 hrs/week before that). </p>
<p>I don't know how FA works really, and neither do my parents. I'm worried that because I worked a lot, even though I barely make anything at all, that that will be seen as me having more money than I do. I will need a lot of help to be able to afford Drexel. </p>
<p>How generous is the financial aid, normally? I know it's not so much Drexel's decision as a formula, but still.....</p>
<p>If you go to the FAFSA site, there should be worsheets or a calculator or something of the sort where you can plug in your parents income, and yours and it will estimate what your expected family contribution (EFC) is. However, this does not meant that Drexel, or any school, will give you the difference between that and that 34,000. The FA you are talking about is going to be a mix of Pell grants (very need based) and Federal Direct loans.</p>
<p>I would be under the 4-year, 1 Co-op option. This has an estimated total of $57,000. Minus the 21.5k, that’s still over 34k. Tuition alone is listed as 41.5k. </p>
<p>(So I was actually under-pricing how much it would cost me…Not even including travel expenses)</p>