Dear CC Community,
I am extremely honored to be accepted into Williams Class of 2019. However, as I read over my fin aid package – well I didn’t. I apparently did not send in some documents. I’m going to send in those documents in the coming days, however, I would like a perspective of how much admitted students got for fin aid. I applied for need-based aid and I wonder if being late for those fin. aid deadlines would severely decrease my amount of grant.
Thank you very much!
First, congrats on getting in to Williams.
Is there a reason you failed to meet the deadline?
I was under the impression that all of Williams aid was need-based.
The amounts of aid any admitted student gets is completely dependent on how Williams calculated their need.
If you use the net price calculator and plug in variables, you can get an idea as to how much aid students will get.
Williams meets 100% of need, but they have backed off and now include loans as part of the aid packages.
Have you contacted the financial aid office?
I personally received $0 in financial aid from Williams with my decision. So that was a little disappointing.
Did you run the Net price calculator on Williams web site? If the NPC says $0 I would expect exactly that. If however, the NPC actually gives you a different figure you need to contact F/A. Remember, if your F/A package says “preliminary” it is most likely not the final figure.
@EphBlog - would that work with merit aid also?
Being a little late with documents won’t decrease the amount of aid you should receive.
The Tyng scholarship is admittedly walking a fine line, but they do not actually give you more UG FA than you qualify for given institutional methodology (so your UG FA will be the same as it would have been without the Tyng). The appeal is in a couple other features: the Tyng doesn’t include a work/study component so basically no student contribution, and they provide a summer stipend so the student can do unpaid research/internship etc. The real boon is the 180K they give you for grad school and this is available to all Tyng scholars, not restricted on a needs basis as with the UG potion of the scholarship.
I had to update this thread. We just received an updated aid package. It is everything we expected from the NPC plus. No question in my mind that Williams is completely committed to making sure attendance is possible for all admitted students.
Wow, congrats! Great to hear.
The poster who raised the issue of the Tyng scholarship seems to have disappeared from this thread but I wanted to update the information for future applicants anyway.
Williams has discontinued the grad school funding piece of the Tyng scholarship. There is now 5K in summer funding for each summer (research, travel etc) so no summer work requirement as well as no term time work-study requirement, and maybe some more research opportunities. Similar to the the various incentives and enrichments offered by Amherst and similar LACs.