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Rosie -- We would all like to believe that USC does not reduce FA for continuing students, and some of us may feel a bit skeptical and wonder if the financial situations of the families of some of the posters might have improved in ways that the posters do not understand. But the notion that posters are outright lying about their FA seems a bit extreme. We have at least two posters here who are parents, presumably familiar with their own financial situations, who have posted very specific information about their Ss' losses of FA, in a.parent's case a substantial drop and in drizzit's case a less substantial but not trivial drop. The OP, who opened talking about his "friend," later said that he, himself, might not now be able to attend -- presumably he has been talking about himself. Hyakku has lost both a 10K grant and a Perkins loan.
It seems to me very unlikely that all of these students and parents, who have hardly been USC foes up to this point, are coming together to defame the university. Perhaps each and every one of them is leaving out some pertinent fact that would explain the drop in FA or is for unknown reasons fabricating the drop in FA. But to me it seems liklier that despite USC providing generous continuting FA with increases for some students, a small number of students is having a problem with continuity in their FA. I continue to hope that they will all address this with the FA office, and if their families' financial situations have remained the same or worsened, as in the case of DJS whose father took an 8% pay cut, the FA office will restore the funds.
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