Elon Fin Aid Experiences

nydancemom
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:25:05 +0000

merkur I can’t believe those statistics. We were told our D has one of the largest grants on campus, and it doesn’t approach the $10000 your figures would calculate to. Yes, they probably do provide some sort of aid to 100% of those who qualify, but MUCH of that will be in the form of Stafford loans, either subsidized or unsusidized, or PLUS loans or other non-grant money. Your figures would seem to say that with an award of $15000, $5000 in self help (loans/work study) would leave $10000 in grant/scholarship. Not gonna happen, unless you are an honors fellow or an athlete I don’t think. My younger D was admitted in 2008, as an honors fellow with maximum Presidential scholarship and at the time, that did add up to $12500. But that applies to very few. She turned it down, Elon wasn’t what she wanted/needed for her particular interests, and is attending one of our state universities which obviously is much less expensive for us. But her needs were different than our D who is at Elon. She’s where she needs to be. We’ll just be paying for it for a LONG time!