Advice for USD financial aid (transfer student)

mom2collegekids
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:24:02 +0000

I just looked at USD’s NPC, and it appears that it’s really for first time frosh admitted for fall. It’s not really for transfers, particularly for spring transfers.

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students on the NPC but I will check again.
My cal grant is not indicated, maybe because I still need to submit certain forms.
The good thing is that I am still enrolled in CSU, so I am not comp
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Your Cal Grant would only be about $4k-5k for the semester, so not enough to make much of a dent in the cost. And, again, the aid pkg you rec’d was only for one semester. So, they’re expecting a HUGE PLUS loan for next year.

The problem with the USD NPC is that it asks for stats as if you’re an incoming frosh, so likely your results were including a merit scholarship that you’re not eligible for as a transfer.

If you re-run the NPC, can you copy/paste the results.