<p>Anyway You can post the link to the FA site so i can check mine! I haven’t gotten an email!</p>
<p>Just received Financial Aid Award letter online … and GW exceeded my expectations on meeting my need … met more than 100% </p>
<p>Combination of merit scholarships, university awards, student loans, and work study … </p>
<p>Very impressed with GW’s package …</p>
<p>is everyone getting this information in an e-mail or is it on some “website”?</p>
<p>To view your awards please visit [MyGW</a> - The George Washington University Web Portal](<a href=“http://my.gwu.edu%5DMyGW”>http://my.gwu.edu), click on “gweb info system” and follow the directions … </p>
<p>you need your GWID and pw …</p>
<p>thanks! mine says that no information is available right now… does anyone know if that means i didn’t get any aid or that it simply hasn’t been updated if i did? i’m not missing any forms so i don’t think it’s that.
this is so frustrating!</p>
<p>yeah … that is why you probably didn’t get the email … because it isn’t posted yet. </p>
<p>I would try again later today. Hopefully, you will get the email too …</p>
<p>i really hope so. i’m trying to be optimistic. is anyone else in the same situation as me?</p>
<p>i am i did not get the email and it also says that my award is not availible. i guess i will wait for the copy to come in the mail. hopefully soon</p>
<p>good to know i’m not alone in waiting. it doesn’t help that i’m an incredibly impatient person!</p>
<p>go GW. 20k Presidential Scholarship and 13k Alumni Relations Scholarship :)</p>
<p>Our EFC is ~20,000 and I got $35,000** in aid. Making it $21,000 a year.</p>
<p>**Only (still a lot though) $26,000 is not in loans or federal work-study, so it’s really going to cost $30,000 a year.</p>
<p>Pretty good package. Looks like they met 100% of your need too.</p>
<p>“”“go GW. 20k Presidential Scholarship and 13k Alumni Relations Scholarship”“”</p>
<p>missymargaux, I thought the Presidential Scholarship was $15,000. How did you get $20,000?</p>
<p>I haven’t received anything mailed home yet, but I’ll comment on the information I received from website they directed me to via e-mail. I was extremely satisfied with my financial aid. GW is quite generous with their offers. They were pretty close to meeting 100% of my need.</p>
<p>Received my “S”'s FA package - very generous and includes a Presidential Scholarship. More than met my “Need” calculation. This is 2x as much as American which is only 4K less expensive.</p>
<p>As a parent - there’s no choice - GW.</p>
<p>I was just wondering how accurate the COA is? Is the travel allowance listing the cost of getting around in D.C. or going/leaving home? Also, I see that you have to get a $3400 meal plan in Freshman year, but wouldn’t the COA go down as time went on because you can pay less for certain things as you go up in grade levels?</p>
<p>If there are any current students, what has been your experience in terms of the COA listed by GWU?</p>
<p>Housing gets increasingly more expensive as you advance through GW, so COA does not go down. The decrease in the “meal plan” does not compensate for the increase in housing costs.</p>
<p>I noticed the dorm expenses increase also - Thurston is the cheapest but only Freshman year. Others vary from ~10K-12K/yr and up. the rates for housing for 2010-2011 are posted on the housing website for GWU.</p>
<p>However, if the COA rises proportionately due to housing and your EFC stays the same, hopefully you will qualify for more need-based aid in the later years since COA-EFC=Need. At least tuition syas the same for all 4 yrs and the scholarships are renewable as long as grades good.</p>
<p>We plan on meeting any “extra” increase with Parent PLUS Loans.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks! I was just going over the fin aid package with my counselor and she said to look into whether the COA really was the full $56,000+.</p>
<p>OK: 79.5402298850574% grants & the rest loans so we are almost happy!
The “almost” is used here since they matched the calculated EFC (as based on our 2009 income). However, in 2010 we will have ~ 16 K less income due to a job change… so I asked for an adjustment by SCF letter before they sent us the FA info.</p>
<p>However, under “Eligibility Requirements for 2010-2011 Financial Aid Year” they state “Special Condition Form Received, not yet reviewed”… so not sure what’s going to happen. Should she accept the FA “as-is” or wait? If she accepts it “as-is” will they still make adjustments or say “well, you accepted - case closed”?</p>
<p>Any insight would be appreciated!</p>