<p>Hey I am a junior interested in financial aid at Syracuse So would any mine posting their stats,efc,and financial aid package and what it included esp. early admits
crankdat50 is online now</p>
<p>My D got a fantastic financial aid package when she was pulled off the waitlist this week at Syracuse. I’m here to say that yes, you can send your kid to a good private school and actually pay less than you would sending them to a decent state university. It will cost us less to send her to Syracuse than to two other really good state schools she got into. GO SU!!!</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>So, is your D going to go to Syracuse?</p>
<p>Was her aid package merit based or need based?</p>
<p>Hey I am a junior interested in financial aid at Syracuse</p>
<p>Your FA package is going to depend on your family income/asset situation and maybe how much Syracuse wants you based on your stats since it doesn’t promise to “meet need.”</p>
<p>Congratulations to the poster whose D got a great Syracuse package and a spot of the waitlist. A wonderful school and so sweet when it’s affordable. </p>
<p>Crank, Syracuse is a very good school. It does not guarantee to meet financial need, nor does it for every student. You can look up the particular averages in that regard on College Board or USNWR. But those are averages and it can differ, given the student’s stats and where they fall on Syracuse’s scale. </p>
<p>You should also run your family’s financials through estimators to see about what they say about your need. Oftentimes families are shocked and how much they are expected to pay. If you have divorced parents and steps, the FAFSA calculator only takes into account your custodial parent and spouse’s financial, but you will have to bring in the others with PROFILE.</p>
<p>My son got an $8,000 scholarship from SU, leaving about $45,000 for us to pay. He’s going to UMass Amherst. In our view (others may differ), SU wasn’t worth over twice the cost of UMass for engineering.</p>
<p>Crimeinparis’ experience certainly dispels the myth that the waitlist is really only used for kids who are full pay…that is certainly good news…</p>
<p>My son got off the wait list into SU this week as well. Unfortunately the FA package was a huge disappointment, with only unsub. Stafford loans offered. My son emailed the admission counselor and was told “all merit money had been given out”.
@Crime in Paris: what school did your D get into and what were her stats like? For us, that myth alluded to above is very much a reality.</p>
<p>Preferential packaging, of course! What hooks did CrimeinParis’s D have?</p>
<p>According to other posts, CrimeinParis’ dd had a rather low gpa but SATs around 2300, significant community service and leadership and is the daughter of an alumni. I almost wonder why she wasn’t accepted in the first round but maybe that’s part of the story. CiP said they were late filing the Profile so maybe she was wait-listed because Syracuse is probably not need-blind. When Syracuse saw the numbers, maybe they knew they could ‘afford’ her. Just guessing…</p>
<p>Correction-- the SAT was apparently 2030. (It’s in 2 of CiP’s posts, first as 2030, then as 2300 but CiP wrote that it was high 600s, low 700s so I think the 2300 was just a typo.)</p>
<p>Sometimes you get lucky. A friend of ours was pretty much giving up on a private high school after his D was waitlisted. She needed significant financial aid and even the admissions officer said that the chances were very slim for her to clear the wait listed and even slimmer to get any aid. She stayed on the list anyways, and was not only offered a spot, but got the need she needed. </p>
<p>In situations like this, it is wise not to count on these slim chances occurring and make sure your bases are covered and you are set to go on an available option, but there is no harm to leave the waitlist option open and see what happens. One of mine got accepted to an ivy in the summer after being waitlisted, and then offered some deferred admissins, and then the acceptance. Totally unexpected and he did not take it as he was already psyched about going to the college he chose. But strange things like this happen sometimes. A little serendipity in our lives.</p>
<p>2college…tried to send you a PM…your PM box is full.</p>