@Senior1098, are you saying you plan to take out $10,000 in loans per year? And how do you plan to get this amount? Federal loans for freshman are limited to $5500 annually. Are you parents borrowing the rest? Are you borrowing the rest with a qualified co-signer? And what about the remaining $15,000 you need each year (actually more, as costs inevitably increase each year)? A “little more money” from AU won’t solve that problem. By all means ask AU for aid, but realistically, you need a plan B, as it seems quite unlikely you can afford AU.