financial aid - please help!!

Joanee49
Thu, 03 May 2007 11:44:17 +0000

Yes, that happened to me too. The girl from SFS told me that they also consider savings, assets and other stuff. She said:

"…it is important to understand that AccessUVa is our financial aid philosophy but it does not mean that there are cookie cutter awards. In fact, awarding is done on a case by case basis with lots of different things that are taken into consideration when reviewed by our staff.

As I said in the last email, generally students who have an expected family contribution that exceeds $4110 will receive loans in their package. However, it is also possible for a student who has a lower expected family contribution to receive need-based loans in their package as well. Reasons vary from income levels, the amount of assets in addition to income, etc."

Sad. I really was hoping to get an all-grant package.