<p>What kind of aid will I get? Mostly loans? Work-study?</p>
<p>Hard to say…call your financial aid advisor at the school you are planning to attend and ask him/her.</p>
<p>Stop calling people. Just wait for a letter to come and you will see.</p>
<p>Depends on the school…</p>
<p>It depends upon the financial track record of the schools you applied to. Each school has a different track record therefore different in what you can expect.</p>
<p>% of need met
% of free money
% of self-help</p>
<p>You have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting financial aid.</p>
<p>Stokely-</p>
<p>I don’t know what your experience has been, but your statement just doesn’t hold water. If you know how to identify the generous schools, FA abounds.</p>
<p>Like everybody else stated clearly, it depends on your school. Rachel’s question did not provide us any information to her situation…thus not allowing us to give her a reasonable answer. But, chances are she may be eligible to little or no financial aid.</p>
<p>Look at your college typical distribution of aid. What is their typical package? Did you receive any merit aid? What % of students they cover full need?
If your EFC is 11K and your college is $40K at good college that gives 75% grants and 25% loans you stand to get 29K in help, about 9K in loans and 20 K in grants.
Now that would be ideal scenario. Most colleges gap, which means your grant may be not 20K but only 10K and rest will be filled with more loans or no help will be offered at all. Many colleges will give 50% grans and 50% loans. You can check out numbers from preivous years of admissions and figure out where you might land.
Now if you are top recruit for this college your package might be from grants only. It is only matter to find that college ;)</p>