$9500 in loans?

junshik
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:57:58 +0000

I just received my fin. aid package. This was my preliminary award:
$15258 inn grants, and around $9000 in loans. My original EFC was around 1518.

And since UCI manually corrected the FAFSA, and my EFC rose to $2440, my new package consisted of around $1428 in grants, around $9500 in loans… but now they got rid of my UCI loan, and added a whole mess of unsub loans instead.

Should I take unsub loans? I don’t know if we’ll be able to afford not taking loans.

If the total cost is less next year if I’ll be commuting, does that mean they diminish the grant aid, or do they keep the same proportion of grant:loan for total costs?