FinAid questions.

p_hp_fan
Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:35:58 +0000

cosabelle, just settle down. You don’t need to know everything that’s going on…that’s part of the experience of being a freshman. Also, you could find a lot of this stuff online if you just googled it.

Housing is your dorm and board is your meal plan. If you are an international student then airfare should be budgeted in to your financial aid award. This probably just means that it’s included in the lump sum check they give you for personal expenses. You can see the amount given on ACES under “transportation”. If it ends up costing you more, then yes, you’ll have to pay out of pocket. I don’t know where you live but I bet I could find roundtrip airfare for less than $2500 to essentially any part of the world…so look harder, lol.

In work study you work. Haha, there is no single “work study” job, there are just different jobs around campus that allow you to work there. You might work at the library, or at the Outpost, or in a lab, or for a sports team, or an academic department, etc., etc. Just go to the job fair in the Bryan Center during the beginning of the school year and you’ll be able to find a job there. Everyone loves to hire work study students because they only have to pay them half (the university pays the other half). Hourly wages vary. I think the minimum is like 8.50, so you should probably expect somewhere around 8.50-10$/hour.

Now no more questions for a while…just embrace the unknown adventure that awaits you, haha.