They included a health insurance scholarship equal to the cost of the University’s health insurance, which is $2358. It’s unclear to me if we have to take their insurance if we’re to keep the scholarship. We have very affordable health insurance, something like $750 a year, in NYS. It won’t work outside of NYS though; so we definitely need an MA option that we’re searching for, either the school’s or outside of it. We’re fully planning to have the baby while up in MA and thankfully there seems to be a lot of great options and providers for healthcare in Mass.
You make a great point about there being nothing standard about a 35 year old attendee. These suggestions are helpful.
Does anyone know if their housing award offer could apply to off campus housing, or if that’s how they’re viewing me in terms of financial aid? Before applying they mentioned that they do not have on campus family housing, but they have a few students each semester, especially transfers, who live off campus.