Can Anyone Describe Their Financial Aid Process?

Zykuri
Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:06:31 +0000

I’m an entering freshman for 2011 (woo!), and Bryn Mawr offered me a really great aid package. My dad makes ~$60K/year and pays over $10K/year in child support to my mom, who is unemployed and whom I have almost no contact with. They must have taken the situation into consideration, because they offered me about $37K in grants, $2,000 for work-study, and we’ll have to take out approximately $6,000 in loans (Sub. Stafford, Perkins, PLUS)… but that’s definitely better than I would have gotten from any college here in Cali.

The only reason I didn’t apply ED was because I needed to compare aid packages, but BMC ended up being my most affordable choice in the end anyway. If you’re really worried about the money, it probably wouldn’t hurt you too much to just apply regular decision. If you really love BMC, they’ll see that. :)