<p>So, I’m just wondering what UChicago’s financial aid is like, especially for out of state students…</p>
<p>I don’t think financial aid would differ from in-state and out of state students very much if at all.</p>
<p>We are a private university, so not at all.</p>
<p>unalove: what do you mean when you say “We are a private university, so not at all.”?</p>
<p>It’s a private university, not a public school. Same tuition for in-state and out-of-state. If you applied to UChicago and wrote essays thinking it was a public school…</p>
<p>It’s easy to get confused as to whether Chicago is private or public due to its name-- if you have researched the school and understand its personality and its mission, then that’s fine. It’s also easier to get confused because a lot of elite public schools (i.e. University of Michigan) have similar OOS tuition to Chicago.</p>
<p>Some other schools that I’m sure some find confusing:</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh: public.
Saint Louis University: private, Jesuit.
University of San Francisco: private, Jesuit.
University of Pennsylvania (“Not Penn State”): private.
College of William and Mary: public
Cornell University (this one gets discussed on CC alllllll the time by people who have irrational hatred towards Cornell): Cornell is partly combined with SUNY for some of its programs and offers lower tuition rates to in-state residents, but the part most of CC cares about (arts and sciences and engineering) is private.
Syracuse University: again, a mixture of public and private, but nobody insults Syracuse about it.</p>
<p>OH! I totally get what you mean now, sorry… I did know that it was a private university. I just was wondering in general if the school had what you might call “generous” financial aid, or not.</p>
<p>uchicago has the worst financial aid in the world, dont even apply.
they suck</p>
<p>I’m sure the University doesn’t have the worst financial aid in the world :p</p>
<p>What about the Odyssey Scholarship? For people who receive it, does it basically pay off all loans taken out for school at UChicago? If it does, that seems like a pretty generous thing for the school to offer, but I guess most of the students must not qualify for it because there seems to be a lot of hatred expressed towards the school’s financial aid.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know how the Odyssey would work for a students with divorced parents? Mainly for a student who’s custodial parent doesn’t nearly make an adequate amount for Chicago, or barely any school at that.</p>
<p>what are my chances of getting financial aid being a canadian. I’m considering applying RD</p>