Financial aid status for accepted applicants

I1uRveC0ke
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:29:46 +0000

I had that message this morning, and I got my award tonight! Quite a good one too.

With an EFC of 8k, I got full aid for the leftover 44k. A 36k grant (I was shocked! I heard Northwestern’s Financial Aid Office is really stingy, and I’m one of their lower students in terms of stats and how many schools in Africa I set up for starving children), 2k in work study, and 6k in subsidized loans.

So yeah, this was my best financial aid package and northwestern is the best school of all the ones I’ve been admitted too. I still don’t get how with my relatively weak record I got in AND got an awesome financial aid package. I guess financial aid is probably merit blind or something.