<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I received my financial aid award and was shocked by how high it was. I got a $35000 grant, but I thought my EFC would be around 35,000. Is this a mistake?</p>
<p>so what? consider yourself lucky and run with it!</p>
<p>You must have top stats. Do you? And you are the first one ever to complain about too much aid. Consider yourself more than lucky ;)</p>
<p>I was just afraid they would later revoke the aid if it was a mistake. My parents are domestic partners so we had to file divorced according to fafsa, so our fafsa had incorrect data. The CSS and family financial profile for WUSTL had the correct data, and we called the fin aid office and sent them multiple letters regarding our situation. So I was afraid they based our aid solely on the fafsa.</p>
<p>Quark
Best thing to do is call our financial aid counselor at washu. Ask them directly and you get a direct answer so you dont have to accept then find out your FA is wrong.</p>
<p>Btw is that 35k straight grant, no loans or work study offerred? Remember coa is around 63k due to misc exp added on like books, transport, entertainment</p>
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I think you’re doing it wrong if it costs you nearly that much. Subtract about 10k from that, especially once you stop living in the dorms.</p>
<p>Will probably be 63k in 4 years time.</p>
<p>^Fair enough.</p>
<p>The idea of that boggles my mind, until I realize that 50k probably boggles the minds of '08 graduates.</p>
<p>I aplogize, i guess i was told the wrong info from SFS. They told me this is what they use for numbers on COA for 2012-2013
Tuition and fees - 43705
RM BRD - 13118
Other Expense like Books, personal expense, transportation - 6687
Total - 63510
I asked them about other expense being high compared to other schools and they said that is the number they use to determine aid calculation.
@johnson181 knows better since he is actually there. Thanks for the correction. What is the actual WASHU COA to determine Financial need (COA - EFC = financial need)</p>
<p>No need to apologize. I realized after I posted that the grad school calculation does the same thing.</p>
<p>(I’m BS/MS’ing, so I looked into grad school costs a few weeks ago).</p>
<p>According to WashU, living expenses (food, rent, utilities, books, transportation) should run a student approximately 20k a year.</p>
<p>No. Just no. I’ve been living off campus since junior year, and I average just over 1k a month (including months when things like books are added in). I don’t know, but I just think you’re doing something wrong if you’re near 20k yet I can easily get by on 12-14k. Also, my 12-14k factors in summer expenses. WashU’s does not.</p>
<p>(If you’re international, that would be different due to flight prices).</p>
<p>But regardless, take your grant and run with it! Once you stop living on campus (if you choose to), costs go WAYYY down, by thousands of dollars.</p>