<p>Locness</p>
<p>What are you talking about?</p>
<p>UT Austin COA for OOS is about 47,000.
If OP got SEOG from Urbana-Champaign you can be pretty sure his EFC is 0 or very close to 0.
He got $9,000 from UT, he needs 38,000 more per year!!! Even if he gets max SEOG 4,000 (never heard anyone got that much) and Perkins (how much can they give above Stafford, 2,000???) and WS for 10-12 hours a week to be able to get good grades, how much is it? 2,500? More?
9+4+2+2,5 = 17,5K
Where is he going to get the remaining 30K?</p>
<p>UT finance people have enough experience to realize that the possibility for this kid to attend is close to 0. They even did not try to give him anything extra.</p>
<p>I wonder where are parents, high school counselors, community college counselors and other responsible adults who are supposed to explain what is realistic and what is not?
My first choice, indeed…:(</p>
<p>Urbana-Champaign OOS COA is about 42,000 by the way, OP got only 25,000, he is 17K short per year and he can get only private loans to cover it.
This is INSANE!</p>