Where will you live? How will you eat?
I will be a commuter, and live/eat at home.
You will have fees, if the school does not feel that your family has adequate health insurance, you will have to purchase the school health plan.
The commute will not be free; there is the cost of gas, tolls and maintenance on your car
yes Im aware.
I am happy for you AVPsy if you do in fact have the tuition and fees covered by your package. I think you are very fortunate. UCONN is a wonderful school with a nice campus. Better than UMASS in my opinion. If you can attend with only a minimum amount of loans then I say to go for it. It sounds like your best option. College is so crazy expensive. If you can find a state flagship that will enable you to attend for minimal loans then you have struck gold.
Well done!
The challenge is that OP received their year’s worth of student loan for the spring semester because she did not use any of her loan this year.
Next school year, she will be short $5500 minimum because the max she can borrow as a junior for the whole year is $7500 ($3750 per semester). It is also quite possible that they gave her the whole year’s worth of grant aid for the spring semester. This is why I asked her to make sure that she clarifies this with the school before she enrolls. If she finds out that the annual award they gave her this year will be the same next year (highly unlikely as an OOS student to get 11k per semester), she will have an unaffordable option
Will you be attending Storrs or one of the regional campuses?
I’m confused…can you commute to UConn from your home in Massachusetts?
Yes Its storrs
@thumper1 yes you can commute by driving
Well…add in the driving costs…and if you have the money to cover tuition and fees…great. And health insurance.
Will you hav enough aid money to cover full OOS tuition, fees, and all of your transportation costs?
i am able to waive health insurance because I have my own.
So your aid is totally covering your tuition, fees and any other costs you will have for OOS UConn?
Yes…
You have $16000 in tuition costs…and your first post says you have $11,900 in grants, and a $6500 loan. Then you added $600 more.
That is fine for THIS coming semester, it seems.
Next year…will you be getting $23,000 in grants, and the loan?
Cool. Good to go!
How many miles each way is the commute? How long does that take?
Each way is 55 minutes / 50 miles
What’s bout in the winter…when it is snowy or icy?
Get much snow there?
These last few years we haven’t really gotten any snow and when we do its enough for classes to get cancelled.