BU meeting full need?

thumper1
Sun, 12 Jan 2020 14:55:31 +0000

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/bu-boosts-financial-aid/

Here is the article from the BU magazine. I feel badly that the aid didn’t work out for the poster above…and that their appeal was denied based on the special circumstance of having a sibling with special needs. It appears this student was accepted ED…and applied based on what the NPC indicated they would receive. We don’t have all the details…so it’s hard to say why this happened.

I’m wondering how this will play out for other applicants this year.

@Mwfan1921 in the thread you noted, the OP actually had a successful financial aid appeal…and is heading to BU.

The poster who highjacked the thread did not…and mentioned two things as issues…home equity and sufficient retirement savings. I’m going to say…many colleges use some to all of home equity. We have no way to know how much home equity this family actually had…and I do understand that the have a special needs child and they don’t feel they can tap home equity for college costs.

I’ll be interested to see how this plays out for other students this year who receive need based aid from Boston University.