<p>Is there any reimbursement for traveling to Dartmouth?</p>
<p>They build that into total cost - so if you are receiving financial aid, they are acknowledging that at an estimated amount - if you can manage to use less in a year than they estimate, that is money in your pocket. See this:</p>
<p>The direct costs associated with attending Dartmouth in 2009-2010 are $49,974. The total standard cost of attendance used for first year students in 2009-2010 is $52,973. (This figure adds on a small amount for books, supplies and miscellaneous costs. Actual costs will be determined individually and will be shown on the financial aid award letter.)</p>
<p>If everything your financial aid award letter (student contribution, family contribution, grants, loans) add up to in excess of $49,974, the balance is the amount they project you might spend on books, supplies, etc. You have some control over that amount.</p>
<p>It depends on how far you live away as well. I have $0 for a transportation budget because I live close enough to college to ride a couple of buses (~400 miles) and get home for about $180 round-trip. However, you do have miscellaneous costs built into your award. If you have a credit in your account (after you’ve paid your direct costs for the term), you may take out up to $250 a day from the Student Services office.</p>
<p>I live in California.</p>
<p>Well not sure about CA, but here in OK I had a significant travel allowance. I don’t have the letter with me(and am too lazy to check online) but I know it was in excess of $1000 a year.</p>
<p>wow, that’s a lot. speechless. Did they really give the money to you? How can I get one for myself?</p>
<p>Umm it’s just included in your financial aid package as part of the budget. So when you pay the office, that money is set aside for travel, and if you don’t spend it on that, you just pocket it and go on with life I beleive. haha</p>
<p>Yeah… it’s just regarded as a credit in your account. You can use it for any undergrad purpose, like books/supplies, transportation… whatever you need to get. You just take the credit out and spend it.</p>
<p>Haha so the amount for my town in OK is appearntly $1,804. Nice and specific, haha. You got me wondering and I had to check online…</p>
<p>How do you get more financial aid? any tip?</p>
<p>Umm, you can always send an appeal into the fin aid office. Also if you have any better offers from pure need based schools, it could be to your advantage to bring those to their attention.</p>
<p>so, in my case, I got a full-ride from WUSTL. How can I appeal Dartmouth financial aid office with this?</p>
<p>Get on the phone with someone in the financial aid department and find out exactly what they advise you to do - they may ask you to send in your competing award letter. Just be sure, as someone else has cautioned , that by ‘full ride’, WUSTL does not mean only ‘full tuition’, a signficantly lower figure than tuition plus room, board, fees.</p>
<p>yes, I think it covers almost everything. I have work-study ,about 2K, though. I am gonna call the financial office of the each schools in Monday.</p>
<p>What exactly should I have to talk about with a work at Dartmouth financial aid ? I am afraid to mention Wash.U. full-ride, because I think it is a bit rude to mention other institution’s financial aid offer.</p>
<p>Unless your “full ride” at Wash U is based solely on need based FA not a merit scholarship, Dartmouth will not consider the package.</p>
<p>Your travel money, wich is budgeted in your FA package will come from you Student Contirbution and your Work-study?Employment earnings (the school is not going to give you a check to purchase an airline ticket). You will be expected to save and budget your money for your trip home. You will also be expected to do your due diligence and shop around for the most favorable air fare and not purchase a ticket at the last minute.</p>
<p>As far as I know, it is need-based. I have other full-ride (merit aid options) including William and Mary, Wake Forest, UVA, Fordham, come LACs, etc. I think WUSTL is a better school though.</p>
<p>However, Dartmouth probably would not consider WashU to be a peer school. They would consider their peers to be schools where there is a lot of overlap in admissions; the other Ivies, AWS, Duke, etc.</p>
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<p>It’s not rude. It’s what people do. Just ask politely if there is any way Dartmouth can match what WUSTL gave you, as the FA is an important consideration.</p>