<p>Got my envelope… With no financial aid papers or anything. This has to be a joke. I’m poor as crap…</p>
<p>@Kdavs95, did you check in the white packet that says “Office of Financial Aid”? Mine was in the first page.</p>
<p>I didn’t read it too carefully. I just noticed that it was a 10 month payment plan…</p>
<p>look in the white packet. there’s a paper slipped in there that details your aid.</p>
<p>Nothing there… I don’t even have a white packet…</p>
<p>just got mine!!!I live in Russia:)
ACCEPTED!!!
so beautiful design and envelope by the way…</p>
<p>Fat Envelope Day in MN regular mail, Hooray! Decent FinAid but still, um wow. Pretty much covers tuition but everything else is so expensive, Mount Holyoke is looking like a better deal even though she’s a spring admit.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, as previously stated I did get the parent emails and we got the shiny brochure, for those still waiting. And yes, our letter was dated 3/29/2013, my birthday 
I really liked that!</p>
<p>Received the acceptance packet last Saturday. Decent scholarship/aid but it is not guaranteed for four years. They told me that after next year when we have only one in college it will be reduced. They did say that we could appeal but there are no guarantees. I don’t know if we can make a commitment with that being a factor especially when there are schools who have made offers that are guaranteed (based on gpa though) for all 4 years.</p>
<p>$809 dollars.</p>
<p>D is very excited about her admittance to SLC. She received a merit scholarship of $22k per year, but the need-based grant award was only $809. Seriously, a whole $809 US dollars for the entire year (why include any amount?). Ugh…that is going to make it difficult to afford, since SLC is so very expensive. The net cost is also roughly $13k more than the offer from Macalester. This will be a difficult decision for D to make, because she really likes SLC.</p>
<p>Aloha, was your daughter’s award the Dean’s Scholarship? My D received one, but it was for $21,000. We don’t qualify for need-based aid (that doesn’t mean we don’t need it,though!!)</p>
<p>right there with you AlohaScott, the sticker shock is pretty enormous. “But Mom, it’s right there, next to NYC!” “But Daughter Moho isn’t that far and um, you’d graduate with a third of the debt!”</p>
<p>I received very generous gift aid and some loans and a work study (which I didn’t receive anywhere else) and I just did my CSS yesterday.</p>
<p>I still worry about the antisocial and “starving artist” culture I’ve heard of.</p>
<p>Heard back in SoCal yesterday. After taking a glance at the small envelope it went right in the trash bin, only to have my bf open it to double check- waitlisted. Whoops! I have a good bit of new info I could send them, but I’ve known how economically unfeasible it would be for me to go to NY from the start so I’m not going to bother with the waitlist. Pretty bummed, but I have a few others I prefer.</p>
<p>awkwardcreation: I am curious about the “starving artist” culture you refer to. I had the impression a lot of students there came from extreme privelege, and frankly, I’d prefer “starving artist”!</p>
<p>awkwardcreation: I sent you a PM.</p>
<p>My3Daughters: On another website I use, tumblr, a current student posted about it (<a href=“http://mjwriting.■■■■■■■■■■/post/32267908147/what-can-you-tell-us-about-slc-and-why-didnt-you-like[/url]”>http://mjwriting.■■■■■■■■■■/post/32267908147/what-can-you-tell-us-about-slc-and-why-didnt-you-like</a>) and I’ve heard about the antisocial campus numerous times. I worry it might ultimately be an unhealthy environment, especially for someone who has dealt with issues in the past.</p>
<p>I have had a sense of what you mention and what the other source has said. She did mention the “friendly nerds”, though, and I am praying that’s who my daughter would bond with. She doesn’t come off as a nerd, but is pretty vulnerable and very sensitive, and I just hope she can seek out instinctively those who would be kind (if she goes there). The educational dimension seems transformative, and the other schools we looked at don’t offer that. With all 8 of the schools she applied to, I can tell you I hear polar opposites about each one: it’s a friendly place, it’s an aloof place, it’s a snobby place, it’s a tight-knit place. It is really hard to know what is true, because each person’s experience is their truth. I will hope when my daughter sleeps over there and sits in on a class next week, she gets a very strong sense one way or another. She was all set to go to Fordham at Lincoln Center, then got a Dean’s Scholarship to SLC after having heard bad things about the pressure of the core requirements at Fordham and the lack of community spirit at the LC campus, with its 50% commuters, so…</p>
<p>I would like to seek out that group as well. But, I still fear it would be draining to be surrouned by that sort of energy. Please let me know what your daughter thinks! I’m pretty set on Mount Holyoke on this point, however, if I do my overnight and am still not certain, I might visit SLC on the Admitted Day. I feel I’m already a bit wary because of what I’ve heard and I don’t know how much that bias would affect my visit. I’m anxious to send in my deposit to MHC, but SLC is only an hour away. Regardless, let me know what your daughter thinks!</p>
<p>Will do! She has never been surrounded by brooding, artistic types. Her high school is pretty main stream, though on the very competitive side, upper middle class, somewhat entitled. Eccentrics and introverts are rare at this school. My daughter is extremely shy, very profound and pretty – isn’t usually involved with “drama” unless another girl makes some commotion over a boy she’s with (happened 3 times over her high school career). That was traumatizing, but I guess that can happen anywhere. To be the only introverted, quirky type, as is the case in her high school, is uncomfortable, and we wouldn’t want to repeat that. Not sure how it would be when lots of people in one place are like that. I guess it’s really the luck of the draw who you get as a room mate. She isn’t in theater, and I bet that’s where the “friendly nerds” would be. There are a couple of other schools on the list that might be more balanced socially, but they lack the name SLC has, and today, in competing in the work environment, a known name on the resume is pretty importnat – I say this as someone who refuses to see college as vocational training. Well, I will leave her impressions Thursday!</p>
<p>This is a very interesting read: <a href=“http://www.slc.edu/studentlife/media/pdf/SLC_Vanguard_Spring_2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.slc.edu/studentlife/media/pdf/SLC_Vanguard_Spring_2012.pdf</a>
I found it on the SL website. I was moved by the openness and dedication the people involved in the symposium (students, admin and faculty) demonstrated. Things were not sugar coated and the issue of social difficulties and students unhappiness was addressed.
Part of me has concern as well. Why after all these years is there still the issue of the health of student life…why has it not been a major priority? (see the Strategic Plan:<a href=“Strategic Plan 2010-2017: The Call to Action | Sarah Lawrence College”>Strategic Plan 2010-2017: The Call to Action | Sarah Lawrence College) But another part of me remembers being that age and finds it “normal” that young people are filled with angst and have trouble finding their place in the social world of their peers or working through various dramas. That is part of growing up and it is happening at college campuses all over the country :)</p>