The financial aid portal updated for me, and holy moly is this university expensive. COA for me is currently predicted to be 55k, which is way more than I can afford. I find it interesting how the COA for some other schools is sitting at 34K without appeals, so I don’t know how my COA for George Washington could be 20k more than those.
I guess GW is going into the same boat as Lehigh, way too expensive.
Were you a direct admit to GWU? I mean there’s no study abroad in the first semester, right?
Yes, I was a direct admit to GWU - was not offered any study abroad for the first semester.
Did you get an email notice of the updated financial aid portal or just checked?
Unfortunately lot of colleges are becoming a reach financially for many people. I see the other way, people are ready to pour to money to get into these programs. My daughter would have had a better chance if she applied ED but we were worried about the finances and even she was not much interested in ED to any college.
I did not get any email, I just checked the self service portal. It wasnt there when applications initially released, so I suppose it took awhile to put everyones finances into the site.
My daughter couldn’t even create an account in the link what you sent earlier. Is your FAFSA processed and sent to GWU?
My FAFSA was processed, but I’m missing a signature. In addition, the self-service portal says that my FAFSA is still missing so… I’m not 100% sure.
Are you saying even without the signature, you got some need based aid?
Yeah, because George Washington also uses the CSS Profile. With the CSS Profile GWU is able to create an estimate of the need-based aid I would theoretically need, however that is subject to change once they process my FAFSA.
@V3rnor , I called the GWU financial aid. Finally figured out that they are still processing the financial aid for all the students. They are not waiting for FAFSA, they are offering aid through CSS.
Is this different from the Estimate Aid email that was sent with the acceptance notification?
I think maybe you already got the estimate email but we never received that.
Somewhat of a whoopsies from GW in their most recent email. The email they sent out that had a video from the president… doesn’t work!!!
If she were to apply ED, the chances of getting merit scholarships would be close to zero. Hopefully she got some through RD process.
The engineering programs (15 schools, a mix of small/large & public/private, most stronger in ENG than George Washington), which my son was admitted to, COA-wise are in the 35-85k spectrum after merit. Guess which one is at 85k, >20k above the second most expensive, and the only private school which did no award merit to him😀.
Are there anyone in this group still waiting for the financial aid information?
DS told me that there was an “estimated” financial aid offer - but it was just 10K for having two kids in college at the same time. I’ll have to look more closely later. Our FAFSA said it processed a week ago; CSS is submitted.
My son won’t let us look at his computer, so I’m getting everything secondhand from him… So far, he’s only told us his merit aid, nothing about financial aid of any other kind. After this week, once he has all the decisions, we will sit down and go through EVERYTHING with him.
Accepted for Political Science.
$10K Presidential Scholarship annually
3.64 UW GPA
4.32 WGPA
ECs:
Cross Country, Track and Field (2 yrs varsity each)
Senior Leadership Capstone working with the mayor of a city to pass laws
National Honors Society
Student Council
Other minimal contributions to other ECs
Worked 25-30 hours/week during school, also wrote admissions essay on it.
First generation
Hispanic
