Financial Aid + ED

Zester
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:40:17 +0000

Depends on your financial status.
If you earn less than 40k a year, you’ll pretty much have a free ride. You can’t decline this, you have no reason to.
If you earn less than 80k a year, tuition will be covered, leaving you about 10k to pay for books, and dorming. They will most likely give you grants, so this is also a reason why you can’t decline it.

They will look at your FAFSA and CSS and what your parents are expected to contribute.

Of course, if for some reason you earn 60k and they don;t end up giving you a lot of aid (mostly if your parents have other assets in houses, cars, business, etc), then you may be able to decline it.