<p>I am worried about the NYU packet.</p>
<p>Is Duke generous in giving financial aid?</p>
<p>I had kind of icky aid from Northeastern too- A lot of people with lower stats than me got more, and I have an EFC of 0... And they gave me about 15,000- a little less than half of that is in loans. Luckily, I had better luck with my other schools....</p>
<p>Any Juniors reading this: If you have a lot of need, don't rely on schools that will give you a lot of merit aid- you probably still will need more and schools that give tons of merit aid usually don't meet a high percentage of need. Apply to schools that meet 100% of need- they require more documents, but they're fabulous!</p>
<p>"Is Duke generous in giving financial aid?"
What I heard is -Duke provides 2/3 tuition for faculties' admitted kids.It looks Duke is generous if you just read the data. However, if you are insiders, you'll know middle-income over-achievers have little chance to get help from school.</p>
<p>MomOf3Stars, I hope you are one of the lucky ones who will get a good FA package from NYU. I literally started crying when I saw my son's paper last year. 2 different 15K scholarships. I called the FA dept and made them double check. My EFC was just under 12K for this year and with the Perkins and Stafford loans, that is about what I'm paying. </p>
<p>Yes, NYU does give good scholarships out, not to everyone, but I count my blessings (and my pennies) every day.</p>
<p>I got into NYU but my EFC was 12k and I hear they give really bad financial aid.</p>
<p>I was accepted to Duke, but they only offered me $5,800 in aid of which half are loans and the other half work-study. They say that my total cost will be $51,000! My family definitely cannot afford that.</p>
<p>University of Illinois was all loans. And a very large majority of it was a PLUS loan.</p>
<p>you and i are in the same position...maybe we can petition for more aid...</p>
<p>Penn State. Boo hiss. My EFC was $4500 and we were offered NO need based aid, only loans. PLUS loans are my friend.</p>
<p>Thanks Sueinphilly...it seems like your son was one of the lucky (probably not just luck ofc) ones. I hope we can make things work for my D but if it does not she will be ok at her second choice (a SUNY school) and maybe NYU will be there in her prospects for grad school.</p>
<p>sualabama, I'll echo you on PSU. I have read though that their unofficial policy is aid for all amounts over $20K. With that $20K, you are on your own. Since the costs there approach $24K annually, the offer of the $4500 would bear me out. </p>
<p>Still, they'll give you an additional $3500 is SHC. Good luck on that one.</p>
<p>My efc is 0 and I got 19,000 is loans/work study from nyu, the rest in grants/sccholarships. Assuming i do get the max 4000 from work study, that's 60k debt after graduation...not looking good since I'm probably do grad/med school</p>
<p>Northwestern. They gapped my son in a big way and expect us to pay the equivalent of well over 1/2 of our take home pay per year. Yes we have saved for college (though not an extraordinary amount). It shocked me to be perfectly frank. Thankfully NU had already dropped down to nearly the bottom of his list after receiving some other acceptances.</p>
<p>I just received my financial award letter from NYU.
My "awards" total ~26,000.
I'm only receiving $6,250 in scholarship money.
The rest is in loans and work study.</p>
<p>So, I guess that means if I'm stuck with NYU,
my parents will be forced to PAY 26,000
to make up for what ISN'T covered in my award?</p>
<p>Kind of sucks, considering my EFC was 7,000.
Wonderful, just wonderful.</p>
<p>I was disappointed with MSU's FA. My son really wanted to be a "Spartan." We live within 10 minutes of the school and he loves the campus. MSU gave him an award for 1600 dollars. He has other grants and awards but there would be alittle over 10,000 in loans.
He's a 4.0 (un-weighted) and a lot of community service, as well as being pres. of the Japanese club and tutoring & mentoring.
U of M gave him a 40,000 dollar scholarship. </p>
<p>Someone told us that MSU doesn't give a lot of aid...I believe them now.</p>
<p>my friend got into ucla, has a sister in college and a younger brother in HS. he received an email the other day that had a subj w/you qualified for financial aid! or s/t lek that and he clicks it and it says: you've received $0...</p>
<p>The University of Rochester gave me only $7,500 per year with the Kodak Young Leader's Award and expected the rest to be loans and contributions. At that rate my parent's accounts will be nearly dried up after 2 years. We sent a nice letter.</p>
<p>I thought UCLA's financial aid package was generous, but I still won't be able to go. My family is very low-income; I had an EFC of $0. I was offered about $15,000 from the school (an academic award they give to high-need students) and the highest amount of money the Pell Grant could give me (a few thousand). Unfortunately, I would still need to pay about $28,000. I don't want my parents to have to take out a $20,000 loan on my behalf (they included this in my 'awards' along with a $6,000 loan for me and work-study). If I don't get any of the scholarships I applied for, then I will be perfectly content with my state's college.</p>
<p>My family's EFC is about 30 grand. We co-own additional property (with no structures on i! It's just a hunk of grass in Maine!) and I'm the first to go to school. Lucky me. Family income is six figure. Ithaca was horrible with its financial aid. But really all of my packages have been disappointing. I think that the evil people at Federal Aid or wherever they decide EFCs just look at the income and assets, and ignore the number of people in a household. I am a senior, my sister is a freshman in high school, my brother is in sixth grade and my other sister is in fourth grade. That is nonstop college tuition starting this fall and ending in 2020, not counting grad school. I guess I should count myself lucky that I'm the first to go. :(</p>