Financial Aid throughout Academic Years

twoinanddone
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:37:23 +0000

As others have said, make sure you know what FA can go up with the increase in tuition.

For one kid, she received merit that stayed the same, athletic aid that was ‘assured’ to not go down, and then some other awards that could be renewed or disappear. Her tuition increased by $2000 per year but the merit didn’t. Loan available increases by $1000 in soph and junior year, so that helped.

Other daughter also had a merit award that did not increase. After her freshman year the new students to the school got a much better merit award, but she was locked into the one from her freshman year. This seemed very unfair to me since they all had to pay the same tuition. The school really didn’t give need based financial aid but did have $1000 and $2000 ‘alum’ grants that were in part based on need. Sometimes she got one, sometimes not. That was frustrating.