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04-23-2008, 11:43 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| What Kind of Financial Aid is Harvard Giving?
Can we list the need based aid Harvard is giving? Are you disappointed or not? Thanks. | 
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04-23-2008, 11:51 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
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| I got $51,650. | |
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05-09-2008, 03:41 PM
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#3 | | Member
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| unless you make more than 200k, you should not be dissapointed. <60k = free. 120-180k = 12k-18k EFC.
Its really good fin aid imo. Too bad i am on waitlist. Penn is charging me 35k+. | |
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05-09-2008, 05:27 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: NY ---> Hahvahd, Cambridge, MA 2012 Gender: Male
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| The aid is mad good yo...I doubt MIT would have given me even half as much >_> | 
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05-09-2008, 06:07 PM
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#5 | | Junior Member
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| Just for reference, my aid package covered all but a smidgen over 10% of my family's income. | |
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05-09-2008, 06:34 PM
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#6 | | Member
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| Hi Jen98, If you don't mind me asking: Was it 10% of gross income or AGI?
Last edited by MSMDAD : 05-09-2008 at 06:52 PM.
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05-09-2008, 09:05 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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| gross........ | |
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05-09-2008, 11:03 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
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| I... actually can't be absolutely sure which they used for their calculations, but my parent's expected contribution (excluding the student portion) came out closer to 10% of their unadjusted income. Just for reference, we don't have significant assets (besides our home, which isn't figured in), and my income is pretty much negligible. | |
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05-11-2008, 02:12 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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| Best. Finaid. Ever. That is all. :3 | |
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05-19-2008, 09:18 PM
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#10 | | New Member
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| When they calculate what parents pay and then provide the rest, does that include the non-billable costs (as in, total Cost of Attendance) or only the Billed costs? (as in, leaving another 5 thousand up to the family?) | |
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05-19-2008, 09:24 PM
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#11 | | Member
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| "What kind of Financial Aid is Harvard Giving?"
The best kind. The kind with lots of money in it. | |
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05-22-2008, 11:52 AM
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| Outstanding!! | |
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05-22-2008, 05:01 PM
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| Generous!
Difficult to say "no" to.
Bringing with it, a sigh of relief. | |
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05-25-2008, 08:47 PM
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| did not qualify for financial aid  , income ~180k | |
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05-25-2008, 09:08 PM
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#15 | | Member
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| mz innocentz,
I take it that the ~180k was AGI? You know that you can file an appeal and ask for reconsideration if there are special circumstances in your case? | |
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