martyh

On average, how long is it before accepted students receive their financial aid package?

4mom4

My son received his financial aid package about a week after his acceptance came.

merkur

Rank speculation time: What are the chances ND will follow suit with Harvard, Yale, Brown, Stanford and MIT in revising its finaid to help modern middle-class families?

martyh

Thanks 4Mom. Was your son accepted Early Application, or Regular? Objectively, do you feel it was a good offer?

gandert

Father Jenkins comments on this question in a recent interview on NDTV which you can watch here: NDtv :: NDtv On Demand

whatever4

So could you give us the Cliff Notes version of the video?

4mom4

My son was accepted regular application. He's attending now so that tells you that we thought the package was sufficient to allow him to attend. He was also accepted early action to Boston College, to their honors program, and received an amount so small as to be laughable. He was accepted to Washington and Lee with a somewhat better offer but one that wasn't enough for us to actually afford to send him. Notre Dame was the last place we heard from and we had pretty much settled on a very nice LAC that had been very generous when we received the offer from ND. We were very naive about aid since this was our first child to go off to college. We sent the same financial info to everyone and expected those that only gave need based aid to come up with the same basic EFC. If ND holds true to form, you can expect them to really look at your information and figure out what is necessary for you to actually attend. It's not a walk in the park financially but it's doable.

AynRand=Lame

^ That's exactly what happened to me with BC. 3500 in loans and I'm just in the middle class. Hopefully ND will actually give me enough to allow me to attend.

martyh

4Mom - Thank you.... We will just have to be patient (and continue to pray) for 3-5 more weeks before finding out. First about being accepted and then the fianacial aid package.

gandert, thank you for the link to the video. Good Source

TymeflysBy

I'll be praying too, for my son and your child as well...Good Luck

goingtoyale

my s received the FA package including all possible aids (federal perkins loan, sub stafford loan, unsub stafford loan, work assistance and ND scholarship). He is applying for some outside scholarships now. If he get some of them, which one could be reduced first among those aids? ND scholarship first and work assistance sencond .....?

caliboi1313

i received my aid package today and it was actually really good; overall it came to $33,000 of insitutional workstudy, and stafford aid per year at ND! WOOO!

adayinthelife

Also got my aid package today and it is unbelievable. $42,some in grants and scholarships (*including around $1.5k in campus work). Single-parent family, bro's in college, EFC around $5k.

TymeflysBy

Were you accepted EA?

elizabetht

AynRand don't get your hopes up too high -- my ND package was exactly the same as my BC package, unfortunately