<p>you all are so helpful, I’m so glad you post :-)</p>
<p>anyway, two more questions:</p>
<p>1) ohio_mom, you mentioned earlier that “you have to add yearly 401k contributions BACK into your folks income.” What exactly does this mean? My mom’s 401k is the only biggish asset we have (its only a little bit more than what chicago wants per year) - I have about $10 in my savings account, and my parents don’t have a large one - our home is worth a little bit more than their income, but they’ve owned it for awhile so mortgage payments arent big. Does this mean they’re expected to take $ out of the 401k?</p>
<p>2) In the Behnke quote, it said that “At Chicago, we decided to let students keep the full value of their outside awards and apply them to their loan or work expectation.” The finaid website now seems to say differently . . . does anyone know if/why they changed this?? (<em>inserts angry face</em>) It would be really nice if it really was this way . . . </p>
<p>ethanrt, congrats on the scholarship!! and good luck!</p>