Decline in income

mom2collegekids
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:24:34 +0000

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Can I appeal? Penn State and Emmanuel in Boston are offering to help us with 20k off tuition based on decline. <<<

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Are you sure that penn state is giving you more free money based on need…are you including loans in those amounts??? Penn State is typically awful with aid for instate and OOS. Was your daughter accepted to their honors college? If so, usually the award is for about 4K per year and it’s a merit award. Are you sure that PSU is awarding an add’l 20k per year??? If somehow they said that they’ll give you an add’l 20k, i would not trust that will be given after the first year. PSU doesn’t give 80k to anyone as need based aid or merit aid.

Oregon isn’t going to give you any add’l need based aid and it does not participate in WUE. The 12k she was awarded was likely a merit scholarship. Which award was she given?

Since you knew last year that your income was lower, it was terribly naive not to apply to some instate UCs.

Who advised your daughter when she made her app list? She was very poorly advised.

As the parent of a new physician, i know that one does not need to go to upitt or spend extra money for an expensive undergrad. Med schools don’t care about a school’s name. Upitt has nothing to do with becoming a surgeon.

What are your daughter’s stats? Is she a NMF? Perhaps it’s not too late to apply to some schools that will give her large merit.

How much can you afford to pay each year?