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03-25-2008, 07:45 PM
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#1 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2007
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| Financial Aid
Has anyone received their financial aid package? | 
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03-26-2008, 02:09 PM
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#2 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Threads: 2
Posts: 15
| Nope, still waiting for the package although my D found out she is a University Scholar, worth a little bit of $. She found that info through her "mymiami" mailbox. | |
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03-27-2008, 08:00 AM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Threads: 8
Posts: 95
| I just got the package today. I definitely could afford it, although it's not really my first choice. I could change my mind, though. | |
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03-27-2008, 11:24 AM
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#4 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Threads: 2
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| Ok...D's fin aid package arrived today. We are in PA. | |
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03-27-2008, 07:43 PM
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#5 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 4
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| I got mine today. Did anyone else get OVER the Estimated Cost of Attendance? | |
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03-27-2008, 08:23 PM
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#6 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| I got mine today as well. | |
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03-28-2008, 09:17 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Threads: 22
Posts: 392
| So, all our FA packages (like 8 of them so far) have been almost identical, everyone expects us to pay the same once subtract out scholarships and work-study and subsidized Stafford. But then there's Miami Ohio, which for some reason wants us to pay twice as much as everyone else. Hmmm. Thought I was going to escape this whole process without battling a FA office, but I was wrong! | |
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03-28-2008, 09:32 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Threads: 8
Posts: 95
| Mine was over the estimated cost, but my family doesn't do loans, so in reality it's about $4000 less than what I need. There was nothing about work-study, though, which kind of surprised me. | |
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03-29-2008, 06:07 AM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Sarasota, FL Gender: Male
Threads: 8
Posts: 64
| We received ours, and it was soft. Some scholarship but mostly PLUS. Our family's EFC was $11,000...I have a daughter in medical school in Boston and a sophomore in private school.
Disappointing...but I don't think she'll be going here. Looks like Wake Forest! | |
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03-29-2008, 08:13 AM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: PA
Threads: 5
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| Do you know if the fa awards are posted on the student's My Miami site? We haven't received the package in the mail yet. Anxiously waiting.... | |
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03-29-2008, 08:51 AM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Threads: 22
Posts: 392
| our EFC was 15K per kid (have 3 in college this fall), and Miami has us taking out PLUS loans for 31K. Every other school has seemed to get that our EFC per kid is 15K. | |
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03-29-2008, 09:13 AM
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#12 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2007
Threads: 2
Posts: 22
| My S finally got his aid package....we are happy to get anything, because we're out of state...TX. got 13,000..yea!!! | |
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03-31-2008, 12:11 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 82
Posts: 1,017
| Hugely disappointing. "FA package" came while we were gone on spring break.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now that Miami is not the right place for her. The last chance was if they offered something that closed the gap between Miami and her other schools' COA.
Oh well, at least she has good options. I'm just sad [sniff] because it would have been fun for her to attend my alma mater. Going into this process I had to convince her to look at other schools her heart was so set on Miami, how things change... but sentiment is not worth $80K of debt at this late point in our(DH & mine) life or her young point. Thankfully she is practical.
Best wishes all. Miami is a great school and I am certain those of you that attend will have an outstanding experience. | |
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03-31-2008, 02:45 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Threads: 8
Posts: 95
| ^I know the feeling. I had my heart set on another school, but it's looking like it won't work out and I'm wishing I hadn't put all my hopes on one school. | |
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04-01-2008, 07:12 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 82
Posts: 1,017
| ^Well I didn't think she had either (she applied and was accepted at 8 schools - several that offered her substantial scholarships, made phone calls courting her, etc...). It is just kind of a shock that "MY Miami" doesn't appear to care enough about the legacy. | |
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