Financial Aid Packages

205mom
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:36 +0000

To clarify:
We DID contact FA at Brandeis. They did re-consider, and made a better offer.

But “better” offer was (please believe me) truly, honestly, not competitive with other universities.
And the practice of FA departments of showing you “your cost” as the expenses minus grants AND LOANS is deceptive. (Brandeis University is not alone in this, but many other universities do not engage in it.)

Thank you BrandeisOfficial for chiming in. Some of your admits were happy with the way they were treated, and some less so. Ask yourself why so many had to “go back” and (essentially) haggle with you. Why the university claims to meet 100% of need to priority admits, and why you present loans as reducing the cost.

Then do it better for next-year’s admits, and do a nice university proud.