<p>soproudofkids, really. just give sarah A BREAK. why must you take everything as a personal attack? she has already said that her choice of words could have been a little more discerning, but that doesn seem to be good enough for you. people like sarah are here on this board to help would-be college go-ers like myself, and i really REALLY appreciate that. </p>
<p>to the OP, i guess you would just have to forget it. and probably return to your home country, where you can have a college education for cheap(er).</p>
<p>I really appreciate all of your comments good or bad. I am not scared away from the board, I am just done with convo with soproud. Maybe I was a little mean I admit, but I didnt like her tone and thought she was a little rude. An opinion is a great thing to have but when I do apologize and the insults keep coming, I am going to just walk away.
Anyways,I do hope that my insight hear will help someone. I truely am a people person with a good heart.</p>
<p>With the exception of schools that are not need-blind, most financial aid officers suggest EVERYone apply for aid bcos family circumstances can change over the course of the 9 months from Jan fafsa filing to Sept matriculation. A parent can get laid off with zero severance, a family member can come down with a serious medical condition, etc. The point being, if you don't apply, and your circumstances change later, the family could be shut out of any finaid for that year since it will all be gone. According to the FinAid director at Duke: "We actually want students to apply for financial aid." </p>
<p>I would hazard a guess that the FinAid director at UI-UC has a similar position; I know the UC's do -- at a Berkeley info session, the FinAid officer said "everyone should file fafsa, regardless of your income, since a lot can happen in 8 months...."</p>
<p>OK, I'll apologize. I don't think I have anything to apologize for, but since several people here think that I do, in the interest of being a member of the CC community Sarah_82 now has my official apology.</p>
<p>Would like to point out Sarah_82 isn't the only one who walked away.</p>
<p>If what you all are saying is true, then how would someone that was accepted into WashU get financial aid? would you need to be a U.S. citizen or a state resident?</p>
<p>WUSTL is a private school so state residency is not an issue. The Op as an international student is not eligible for federal funds; Pell, SEOG, Stafford Loans, Federal Works Study, Academic Competitive Grants, Smart Grants, etc.</p>
<p>However it does not mean that he is not eligible for any institutional funds that the school may decide to give him as they are free to distribute their funds however they wish.</p>
<p>Quit complaining. Can you blame American schools for not giving out much international aid when they have their own students to take care of? There are millions of Americans right now who are in need of financial aid they won't get.</p>
<p>I am also of the opinion that the OP's original post sounded entitled- my daughter is interested in the UK for grad school and has to carefully consider the fact that she will recieve little to no financial aid. Washington U does not owe the OP anything.</p>
<p>Uh. But the OP comes from a family making less than 10k. WUSTL knew there was absolutely no way he could afford it, and therefore should not have granted him admission. And if they did, if they were going to give international funds to somebody I'm pretty sure he should have been high up on the list given that he makes UNDER 10K A YEAR.</p>
<p>First off no, don't wait for more schools in America. How about schools in your own country so I don't have to pay for it!!! Oh, and were does this comment come from? from an American citizen who never received ANY federal aid.
I have a 3.91 GPA at the University of Washington (different) and they sought me out to go to their school. I also got into Stanford but that is another more expensive story. My family lost everything a year before I left for college in 2000 when my dad almost died in a fire that destroyed a mall. I, and my family, had absolutely nothing to pay for school (let alone survival and medical bills!) and do you think Fed Aid helped me? NO! And this type of situation is what Fed Aid was set up for!<br>
The University of Washington costs 20,000 a year with tuition and living costs. Just tuition is under 10,000 and it is 2008! Don't pick such an expensive school! Why should those of us who are being frugal school shoppers pay for your expensive taste? I couldn't go to Stanford because of the cost so I adjusted. I think you should too and quit whining.<br>
I was forced to get private loans totaling over 30,000. The interest rates suck, the rules are worse than a normal private bank loan, and if you want to pay back 30,000 in private loans it will end up costing you ovder 60,000 which is what I paid just this year to be completely debt free from the college education I was never able to finish because of money.<br>
If anyone should get money it should be me, not you, because I live here, my family pays taxes here, oh, and I pay taxes here! You better not be from a country where education is paid for or that will upset me more! Basically, I have no sympathy for you and nobody gets anything for free. Welcome to America.</p>
<p>Accepting students who can't afford to go makes a school's stats look rosier, but the OP said s/he asked for 40k of aid and could've made it work with 30k of aid. A school has no idea if the requested amount of aid is truly a necessity. Clearly 40k of aid wasn't an absolute essential for the OP, and admissions can't know if there's a wealthy relative willing to pay should they make a no aid admission offer. The odds an international student will receive aid at Wash U are extremely low, and Wash U isn't secretive about this, so an international applying to Wash U and requiring aid can only blame themselves if s/he had unrealistic expectations.</p>
<p>Em, so I am a money-seeking-international-spring-transfer who got admitted by Wash U for Spring '09, and I just found out that I got a renewable scholarship for ~34 grand per year, which seems not too bad to me.<br>
I am paying ~20 grand/year here in my current small "U of E/W/S/N <em>state name</em>" public college without any finaid. So it's almost the same as the reduced fee for Wash U.</p>