Chances for a Transfer Student to W&M

kelly57
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:55:57 +0000

K9 – Thanks for your thoughts and I hope your daughter loves Bucknell. I am actually a Bucknell legacy which makes this dilemma all the more difficult. I originally thought the difference wasn’t great enough to warrant a transfer but my daughter was the one who wants to look further in to the transfer if we are unable to get any type of assistance from Bucknell. We have applied for FA but our EFC is just above Bucknell’s tuition so our only hope is for some type of scholarship. I think she is concerned about the financial impact her tuition is having on us and the fact that I have younger daughter who has her heart set on Bucknell. When we made the decision to send my oldest daughter to Bucknell, we had the savings to pay for both of our daughters to attend the schools of their choice but we lost more than ½ of our savings in the stock market crash so we are really feeling stressed over how we are going to manage. The ideal thing would be if Bucknell came through for us… my daughter is an awesome student, an athlete and actively involved in several campus organizations. Education is our top priority… we have happily sacrificed to pay private middle and high school tuition for our daughters while saving for college and we did have every intention on paying their college tuitions with no assistance.