Wake Forest Financial Aid Experience

HI! I applied RD to Wake and I have high hopes of getting into Wake Forest, but stressed about the money aspect. I wanted to see others experience with the financial aid aspect.

Wake is very generous with need based aid. 100% need met, primarily with grants. Merit aid, however, is quite limited. Did you fill out FAFSA ans CSS Profile? Did you do the online calculator from their site to get a sense of the numbers?

We are full pay. However, when our second attends college, we should qualify for something based on calculators. Makes me wish we had twins! They only overlap one yr.

Best of luck.

Thanks for the response. My parents have done the CSS and FAFSA. I did the calculator today and the number came back at an affordable price. However I worry about the calculators accuracy. Does the caculator show about the same number you pay currently? Thank you again and I am glad to hear your child has gotten in! Best wishes!

Actually, he’s a sophomore and LOVES it. Great school!

Again, we are full pay so I can’t speak to accuracy of the calculator. For us it’s been accurate. It says we have to pay 100% :-* But we knew that going in.

Was still necessary to fill out the forms in order to receive the nonsubsidized loan of 5500.

Has anyone received their financial aid package yet? I hear they come out at the beginning of April, but not sure.

We’ll be full pay unfortunately. Quick question: if my s received a nice merit scholarship offer from a very comparable school what are the chances of wake matching it, if I present it to the application office? Probably not good, but worth asking, right?

You can ask but they don’t do that. They have very little merit money as they are need blind and 100% need met which means they give a ton of need based money out. Merit is 1%-2%.

Ok, so did ANYONE get notified of financial aid offer yet?

Yes, we got the letter last Thursday. Zero nothing…

I still have not received anything in Louisiana.

Wake said we’ll hear something next week.