Son accepted to University of Redlands! Received a very generous Academic Achievement. Now waiting for Financial Aid package to see what the final numbers look like. Anyone out there playing the same “waiting game” or has done so in the past? Hoping for good news on scholarship/grants! If we can get the total close to CSU costs, our son will be a U of R Bulldog!
When you ran the NPC on UofR’s website what were the results? If the NPC doesn’t ask for stats, then keep in mind that any grants shown on the NPC may get reduced by the merit scholarship.
Is your EFC less than the cost of a CSU? Do you qualify for a Cal Grant?
What is your EFC? It is highly unlikely that Redlands will provide any additional aid to pay more of your EFC.
At this point, however…just wait and see!
last year FA came by mail, letter dated Mar 18th. They were short of NPC by 7k. d had merit and talent scholarship as well as FA.
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They were short of NPC by 7k. d had merit and talent scholarship as well as FA.
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@lz57c4 Did the NPC ask about scores or indicate merit? Or did the merit/talent replace a grant that was shown on the NPC?
@mom2collegekids - they do include stats in NPC, but it doesn’t matter, it was the net price that they missed, that even with a talent scholarship. everyone’s situation is diff’t. just giving OP a single data point that includes both kinds of merit and FA.
They gave a lot of aid, but they were not especially financially friendly in our situation (didn’t meet full need or approach their statistical avg or their NPC target). For us, most (not all) of the mid-tier schools (similar to ctcl schools that don’t meed full need) were similar - lots of aid, but missed the net price targets they projected. it was eye-opening.
@lz57c4 Thank you for the info that they include stats in NPC. Did you ever contact the schools that had NPCs that were misleading? If the info that you put into the NPC was truly accurate and the actual pkgs were significantly short, then those schools are being dishonest in order to get applications. That said, often pkgs don’t reflect NPC results because the info put into the NPCs isn’t accurate.
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didn’t meet full need or approach their statistical avg or their NPC target)
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If they don’t promise to meet need, then gapping can be expected.
Statistical average means very little. And statistical averages only include those who actually enroll. It doesn’t include those who got lousy aid, were largely gapped, and couldn’t consider enrolling. For instance, if your child didn’t enroll at UofR, then your award was not included in their reported average need met. Imagine all the lousy pkgs that went out to low income, non-Calif residents, with stats too modest to get merit. Even tho UofR is private, a low income Calif resident would get several thousand in a Cal Grant.
As I said before, this is just a data point for the OP’s use in trying to predict what may happen with Redlands FA.
D1 attended U of R, starting in 2009. Her FA (not including loans) added up to approximately $30,000 per year. She was out of state. We (parents) didn’t take loans to pay our $10,000 to $12,000 per year.
When we did the NPC, I put in exact numbers from our most recent filed taxes (2014) & the ones we JUST filed for 2015 are almost exactly the same. The NPC spit out a balance of $21k that we would owe. Our EFC, according to FAFSA is $11k. Best case scenario: U of R kicks in another $10k, but I just don’t know if that’s realistic, since we’ve already received that Academic Award. And the NPC said it was factoring in $30k in grants/scholarships/aid. We don’t qualify for a Cal Grant – we are in that frustrating middle ground, but it is what it is. Also have another son in a CSU for another year to two. I’m told that does help. Fingers crossed, still waiting! Maybe next week …
@rosred55 What you are describing, kicking in $10k to $12k & not taking out loans is what we are hoping for! Of course, with 2016 prices (vs. yours from 2009), there is some inflation involved. Plus the prospect of tuition creeping up for the next four years. But if push comes to shove, we are willing to take the basic $5500 in annual FAFSA loans to close up the gap. But again, if that gap can get to a reasonable amt. Our son wants to attend this school & he’s done his part to get in & have really great grades & more to get $24k in merit aid. So it’s certainly a nice start … Just need to see final numbers to cross the finish line!
University of Redlands is a private university. Not sure why you being OOS would matter…since costs are the same for in and out of state students…with the possible exception that travel could be more costly for OOS students.
I mentioned being out of state, because of the Cal grant; I don’t know how that affects things. Is that only for public schools in California?
And to clarify, we (parents) didn’t take loans, but D1 did.