<p>I'm not.</p>
<p>yay GW! lol. got 20k a year.</p>
<p>has fa restricted anyone else from attending Tufts and being a Jumbo?</p>
<p>Grats to everyone else who is going though, i'm sure all of you will have an amazing college experience =)</p>
<p>I’m not sure yet. I appealed and mailed it today so hopefully I’ll know soon…</p>
<p>what are your alternatives?</p>
<p>GWU, lol. I also got a merit scholarship - same as you. </p>
<p>I just don’t know if I can afford the debt.</p>
<p>yeah i had the option of going to Tufts with student loans…realized i really don’t want that in the long run lol</p>
<p>if you end up at GW let me know! =)</p>
<p>Please tell me Tufts is at least giving you low interest or interest-delayed loans.</p>
<p>How much more money would you have to borrow to come here?</p>
<p>Yep, interest-delayed loans (subsidized). But I still have to take out loans for my EFC…</p>
<p>I appealed for more aid because my CSS Profile didn’t accurately show more recent events.</p>
<p>How do you go about appealing aid? Do you call/set up an appointment with the FA office/or write a letter explaining your circumstances?</p>
<p>^ I see you’re already set on Williams or Cornell…</p>
<p>Fin aid really doesn’t appreciate it if you’re appealing simply to compete with Williams or Cornell. You should really only appeal and ask for money if you’re SET on Tufts and really just need money to be able to afford it.</p>
<p>Please don’t drain the opportunities of others because you simply want more money even though you’re basically set on two other schools…</p>
<p>But if you still really want to appeal, and would 100% go to Tufts if you got more $$$, call up the fin aid office. That’s really the only reason you should be applying.</p>
<p>neethus: … I’m not appealing to Tufts, since I know I’m not going there. I was asking how to go about appealing in general to colleges (I’m probably going to appeal to Williams).
I just saw that you were in the process of doing so, and I was wondering how I, too, could go about it…</p>
<p>Call the FA office? Okay, that’s what I’ll do then.</p>
<p>I think I’m most likely going to be going to Tufts because, believe it or not, it’s the college that has given me the most FA so far.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry Chandler! You were posting on the Tufts board… so I followed the logical thought process.</p>
<p>Anyway, you should post on the Williams/Cornell board. Maybe someone on there can share their experience with you…?</p>
<p>Yep count me in this group too…sigh. Pretty disappointed but I guess I’ll get over it eventually.</p>
<p>Happiest Day of My life: 3/31/09 – got accepted to Tufts (my #1 choice). Yeah!
Saddest Day of My life: 4/6/09 – realized Tufts gave me no money and my parents said “no way”. Sigh and <em>sniff</em>.</p>
<p>I’m generally ok with it because I got money from some equally good schools (GW, Villanova, Duke, Emory, Georgetown) so I have some choices, so I guess the only loss is that I picked the wrong CC name :-/ </p>
<p>Anybody know why Tufts is giving out such little finaid this year?<br>
Are they hurting from the economy?<br>
Are they cutting back on campus services or classes? (as you can see, I can’t let go – I’m still imagining being there…)</p>
<p>^ Detail: I just saw your post above. I got only some work study ($2000) and an unsubsidized loan ($3000? I think). So basically nothing since it’s all money that I have to pay them up front out of my pocket or my parents’ pocket no matter how you look at it. </p>
<p>I think I read on the BC forum someone saying that there are some schools that adjusted quickly to the economic situation and got good aid packages to top students, and some others that stuck with their old way of doing FA, and gave packages based on how things were 2 years ago. Tufts might be one of those too. </p>
<p>Anyway, I will probably disappear from this Tufts forum as April winds down toward my final decision at some other school, so best of luck to everyone who ends up in Medford, Mass next year. I should consider myself lucky that I will have someplace that I can go in the Fall. </p>
<p>But I really wish I could be there to help you guys paint the cannon. 
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<p>/Bye…</p>
<p>Aw, GoJumbos… you have some GREAT choices. Duke? Georgetown? You should be extremely proud of yourself.</p>
<p>Tufts is my first choice too so I’m facing a similar situation as you are. I don’t know how the heck I’m supposed to turn it down if my appeal form doesn’t pull through :(</p>
<p>I saw that some students who received some aid are turning down Tufts because it was not enough aid. Does that FA then go into the pot for others who did not receive enough aid? I am asking out of curiosity only (and because I am rooting for neethus and others).</p>
<p>^^ Excellent question, stny. I would say the answer is “No” because I can’t see what mechanism might exist to take that money and redistribute it to this year’s accepted students. I think the students who can’t afford Tufts will just abandon what little aid they are leaving behind as they move to somewhere that met their need. </p>
<p>What it possibly means for Tufts – who may *already *be cash-strapped – is that they may see that cash situation worsen. Instead of ending up with a bunch of students who can pay the $20K or $30K or $45K or $53K that’s being asked of them, they may end up with a whole bunch more of the students who are getting closer to a full-ride, as the other students go somewhere else besides Tufts… Meaning that Tufts ends up paying lots more for FA than they expected… Meaning that Tufts has even less to give next year, and so can only give what they are federally mandated to give to the lower-EFC students… Meaning they end up with a whole bunch more of the students who are getting close to a full-ride, as the other students go somewhere else besides Tufts… Meaning that Tufts ends up paying lots more for FA than they expected… Meaning that Tufts has even less to give the next year after that… and so can only give what they are federally mandated to give to the lower-EFC students… Meaning they end up with a whole bunch more of the students who are getting close to a full-ride, as the other students go somewhere else besides Tufts… Meaning that Tufts ends up paying lots more for FA than they expected… rinse and repeat… well, you see where this death spiral could end up.</p>
<p>stny - thanks :)!</p>
<p>This question occurred to me too. I would think that Tufts actually handed out more FA than they “had” because they realized that people would turn down their offers. Therefore, there was no FA $$$ remaining in the pot, so really what’s happening is whatever they expected to happen anyway. I doubt they had that much FA to allocate to every single applicant. After all, the yield is 30%. </p>
<p>On the other hand, maybe they left a teeny bit of money for those who were going to appeal. This way, they could scrape the bottom of the pot to hand out more to those who really wanted to come but can’t afford it.</p>
<p>I live on Long Island and my parents make a decent amount, and although my EFC was full tuition, my parents hoped that they would receive a little bit of aid. We have received no aid from any of the schools I applied to and now I’m between 100 k of debt at Tufts [my dream school] or a state school that I had no anticipation of going to. ever. Are there any chances at all for me to receive some financial aid if I appeal and explain my situation?</p>