Financial Aid...UGH

laxtaxi
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:37:23 +0000

NMH-duh: Much better name!

The FA director at NMH is a very direct person. You or your folks should call her and tell them what is going on. She will tell you straight up what she can and cannot do for you.

At NMH families accepted without FA cannot reapply for FA the following year. The reasoning is that they do not want families who cannot afford 2, 3 or 4 years they will be at NMH to scrape together enough to attend for one year, hoping that NMH will give them money in the remaining year(s). They do not want to be in the position of inviting someone into the NMH community and then making them leave a year later because they cannot pay. So that is why they tell you that, barring a change in circumstances, they will not offer an existing student FA if they did not receive FA the year before. They will, however, consider a meaningful change in circumstances. One, for example, would be another sibling who will be starting college at full tuition.