<p>Could returning students at Harvard share their WorkStudy contribution requirement
for the upcoming year (and by how much it has gone up from last year)?</p>
<p>I am trying to contextually understand the almost $4K increase in contribution
for me with soph year drawing nearer.</p>
<p>…Work Study/Term-Time contributions</p>
<p>Okay rather than specific amounts can those coming back to Harvard at least
indicate the % jump from their previous year to the current year in terms of term-time
contributions?</p>
<p>50+ views no inputs …?</p>
<p>My view of Harvard aid is that it has been very fair and even
generous (beyond fair) in some cases (like mine). Recently I
found out there was a substantial increase in the term-time
commitment. Apparently freshman to soph year an increase is
common, I am trying to determine if such increases permeate
future year-transitions or not.</p>
<p>I am also trying to determine if others have been similarly impacted
like me. </p>
<p>Inputs from returning H students or the people knowledgeable about
this would be topical!</p>
<p>I didn’t have work study/term-time my freshmen year due to outside scholarships taking care of my student contribution, however, to plot my three other years, I have had:
$3850 - sophomore year
$4153 - junior year
$3400 - senior year
Granted, my junior year was increased when I requested it since I had hit my ceiling too early on in the year, so I can only imagine the same thing will happen again with this coming year.</p>
<p>huinsider, same here in terms of freshman and sophomore year contribution. </p>
<p>Could you comment on the advantage of increasing the term time commitment?
Is it not better decreasing it?</p>
<p>I only increased my work-study portion, because if I didn’t, my job would have to work from its budget, thus, they would limit my hours per week to fewer than I wanted, so I asked the college to increase my work-study ceiling, which is slightly different than the term-time contribution, so all they did was increase my work-study contribution while keeping everything else the same in my financial aid package.</p>
<p>^Thanks huinsider! That was helpful.</p>