Fin Aid Personal Expenses

intenex
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:15:01 +0000

@Mustafah - I realize what you wrote is in regard to my outside scholarships. The question I’m asking had to deal with the outside scholarships to begin with - it was never a question of sole financial aid. Like you said, the situation outlined by theskylitup is rare and entirely different from mine.

Understanding that, please re-read what twinmom’s been saying:



twinmom:

Guys, you are way off base. No one is going to hand you a check. They come up with an estimated budget that you will have to live on. They then award you a certain amount of grants and term-time job (possibly) toward that number. You will NEVER get a check for travel, books, food or other expenses. It just doesn’t work that way.



And even after I clarified the situation as much as possible and you admitted that I would be getting a check as a result of my scholarships (which, again, were what we have been debating the entire time, please read my first post, which begins: “After financial aid and scholarships, I’ll have to pay $2,600 a year, which is less than the ~$4,300 for personal expenses and travel”) twinmom still obstinately remarked



twinmom:

Mustafah is right. For the last time, you will not get a check for personal expenses or travel, except possibly for a winter coat or extremely dire circumstances.



@twinmom - am I the one who started using that tone? I’m fairly certain I was only echoing your initiation of hostility.



twinmom:

Perhaps you should not ask for advice from those in the know if you don’t want to hear the correct answers.



You probably do know more about the financial aid situation at large than I do. I never said that you didn’t. But I don’t like it when you repeatedly comment on my thread with a remark that entirely misses the subject in question (which I can only assume came about as a result of your failing to read everything posted, as I remarked in my last post, since it seems that you know so much about financial aid). Again, I was never talking about sole financial aid. There was absolutely no reason to remark that under no circumstances would I receive a check - if you had any inclination to answer my actual question, the answer should have been the same as Mustafah’s - because of your outside scholarships you will receive a check, but your financial aid situation will not warrant you one alone (something that I understood clearly before even posting this).

I’m glad you assume I’m letting my acceptance go to my head. I never said a thing against you until you attacked me first, in a post with no additional helpful information from your first, and no justification for your statement, unlike other posters on here who’ve been much more useful. If you’re going to help, thank you, and I really appreciate it, but I didn’t see what you were posting as helpful at all.

In reference to asking the financial aid office - I already have. I sent them an email Friday night. Unfortunately, if I’m not mistaken, it happens to be the weekend right now and I doubt I’ll receive an answer until Monday. In the meantime, I didn’t think it would hurt to see if anyone who understood my situation had an answer to give me. But thank you for trying to help anyway.

Edit: Thanks eliana for the post above this one. I’m glad to know someone else understood what I was trying to get at here :)