<p>Clark and Stanford. Both great psychology programs. Obviously, I’ll be willing to fork out more for Stanford. Could I submit two different FA estimates or should I just let the FA offices commit daylight robbery?</p>
<p>I don’t really understand your question. </p>
<p>What is it you are trying to accomplish?</p>
<p>IF you are asking can you submit the FA aid award letter that you got from one school to another school to ask them if they can give you a financial review in hopes of meeting your package? the answer is yes you can. </p>
<p>But if you got a better offer from Clark would Stanford meet it the answer would be most likely no.</p>
<p>Nadash - Like sybbie, I don’t understand the question either, so perhaps if you re-phrase it, you might get a more meaningful response from CCers.</p>
<p>You don’t really have any leeway with the FA estimate - you just provide the data to fill out the forms - so how much you are willing to pay for a specific school is not relevant. Each school will determine what they think you (and/or your parents) should pay, and then they will let you know what, if anything, they are willing to give you for FA and in what form – grants, loans, work-study, etc.</p>
<p>If you are suggesting that you would send in two different sets of financial data, then obviously that is NOT ETHICAL.</p>
<p>I don’t think Ethnicity has much to do with your financial aid- although of course the census has indicated that Asians have highest incomes
Is that what you are asking?
What you could do is decline to ask for aid at all at Stanford, if you prefer that school to that point.
However as far as your FAFSA and PROFILE go- you submit the financial info with those forms- you don’t have two sets of numbers for different schools.
Different schools may have * their own* forms, that include different things- but if your house is worth $400,000 in one form, it is worth $400,000, because they always can ask for verification and cross reference with IRS ;)</p>
<p>How much tuition you pay won’t help you at Stanford.</p>
<p>Ethical …not Ethnical… Sorry. =P</p>
<p>My mum runs a business, so her earnings fluncuates. And most of the money we have not are for the retirement funds. So I probably could report two differernt figures for the two universities in the FA reporting form. For example, Stanford provides a blank which allows you to state how much you estimate you could pay; I could put that figure higher for Stanford then for Clark. </p>
<p>Technically I COULD pay for university. If we sold our house and spend the next twenty years eating cockroaches.</p>
<p>Ah… I forgot to add a very important thing. I’m an international. So there.</p>
<p>I don’t think that line on the form where they ask you what you think you can pay means anything. I always left it blank or simply wrote “don’t know”, because I thought it was some sort of trick question. The financial aid award is going to be based on what your need is based on income and assets and/or how much the college wants you. Stanford is going to base your aid mostly on need, Clark may give you a merit scholarship and their decision may be based a lot more on how much they want you to come. </p>
<p>You should be totally honest about the facts they ask you, like amount of money in the bank – don’t worry about questions that ask for an opinion – (what you think you can pay) – and research each school’s policies about financial aid for internationals very carefully.</p>
<p>Be very careful about undergraduate psychology programs – at a lot of colleges, psychology is an oversubscribed major and it can be difficult to get into the courses you need. This is something they don’t tell you in the brochures but you should ask about before applying.</p>
<p>to add on to what Calmom wrote, psychology is also a major where you have to go on to a graduate program if you plan on working in this field.</p>