<p>Why is the Yale website for financial aid still without the financial calculator?</p>
<p>Also the charts from a few years back indicating the bands/cut offs for aid percentages is not there anymore…not even updated. We cant find any info about the policies for loans, equity/home valuation etc.</p>
<p>All in all it is really lacking --seemingly not very transparent a system…which concerns me after reading some CC posts about problems with the FinAid packages.</p>
<p>When can we expect the calculator etc to be updated?</p>
<p>I’m not sure when they will be updated, but the blue book they sent you should have some info on that near the end. Alternatively, you can just call them up.</p>
<p>I wanted to give a link to Ys new FA policy awhile back but it’s nowhere to be found other than vague news articles from a couple of years back. And their FA calculator hasn’t been available for quite a while. </p>
<p>The BB does give the income cutoffs and percentages, examples and some asset information; but it also cites the non-existent online calculator.</p>
<p>I’d recommend giving Y a call to find out about the calculator.</p>
<p>^^ Thanks
I forgot we had the Blue Book around…will search that out. </p>
<p>Tried the calculator on another’s website—pretty straightforward…was hoping for something on Y since obviously institution specific.</p>
<p>I did contact FinAid office several weeks ago and got an answer like…“we dont know when the calculator will be up…”
?? uh, ok…sooo
Still there seems to be very little in the way of transparencey/information…
Gives one the feel of “Wizard of Oz”, doesn’t it? ha ha
Don’t look behind that curtain ;o)</p>
<p>I found the Yale financial aid office to very helpful. They were actually more open about their methodology than I expected. I was trying to figure out how much of our EFC was based on income, and how much on assets. (In other words, I wanted to see how our EFC might change after we used up our savings on tuition!) The woman I spoke to just answered me directly-X amount is based on income, and Y is based on assets.</p>
<p>By the way, you’re right that their financial aid page is a lot different now!</p>