CWRU Class of 2025 Decisions

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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 02:38:55 +0000

My son (an international student) applied for EA. He was admitted with Financial Aid of ~30K/year or the EFC is ~ 44K.

This EFC is not affordable for us, and, it is almost doubled the CWRU’s online cost estimation (FA is ~50K according to our input data). I understand that the estimation is for domestic students and that CWRU is need-aware. However, my son is admitted, and the calculation is too different.

Should we appeal for the FA re-calculation? any advice if we do so?

In fact, CWRU is one of my son’s 2-3 first choices (his intended major is Physics and Case has a quite strong undergrad Physics program). One of the reasons that he did not apply for ED was that I was afraid that the FA may not be enough (I am aware of that from several discussions on this forum).