<p>Well to be honest my Dad had an heart attack lately and has been in the hospital for a few months, 4 months I believe. He’s fine now. The hospital bills have amounted to over 1.4 million due to my Dad not having health insurance. On top of that our family makes below $30,000 a year. I was wondering how much FA would I get from private/public schools such as Vanderbilt University, George Washington University, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio and Oxford College of Emory? I plan on applying for a lot of scholarships but no one will help me pay for my college bills so I hope to find a college that will be very generous with financial aid and I can’t take a year or so off and work because my Dad wouldn’t want me to do that. So I was wondering what kind of estimate I could be looking at like, 50% of tuition or something like that.</p>
<p>At that income level, you’ll probably be looking at a full ride at many schools regardless of your extenuating circumstances. Stay on top of the ball, and you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>If you’re competitive, George Washington has pretty good need-based financial aid and excellent need-aware merit aid. To be honest, like the above poster said, you’re looking at great financial aid at any school with a good need-based program. Depending on how competitive you are, look into some of the top twenty universities that meet 100% of need and guarantee no loans. If you’re not that competitive, you’re still very, very likely to need to borrow less than $10,000 per year. If you play the merit aid game well and choose your schools based on generous financial aid policies (and there are schools that you’re looking at that have generous aid policies even if they aren’t TOP schools!), I imagine you could graduate with less than $25,000 total in debt (your Stafford loan load).</p>
<p>I think the poster means 25,000 total, not per year. </p>
<p>That would be a little frightening.</p>
<p>Actually the total would be 27k now.</p>
<p>Oh alright, thanks guys and I was also planning on applying to the Gates millennium scholarship, would I have a good chance at winning that if I had a 3.4 G.P.A.(due to moving a lot) and taking the hardest course load in my small inner city school?</p>
<p>fin aid and academic stats go hand in hand. To get an idea of potential
aid you need your gpa, level of classes and sat/act scores. You also need
to be aware of any assets your parents may have outside of income. With
today’s super standards a 3.4 is borderline for decent aid.</p>