<p>EA financial aid letters are simply estimates based on the financial aid policy at the time, which has since changed in the last few weeks. I would definitely contact the financial aid office to see if your situation changes.</p>
<p>Also, the $100k income is not a hard cutoff, since there’s a sliding scale. An official with the financial aid office was quoted as saying, don’t worry if you make slightly over that, you’re not going to pay a huge amount. For example, if someone making $200k would pay full tuition, then you would pay 1% of tuition for every $1k income over $100k. I’m just making these numbers up, but you get the idea.</p>