Given right now all of school have financial trouble(many schools start to lay off, cut salary, or at lease no raise this year), I believed they will give priority to OOS for now.
Thinking of doing these two tomorrow morning. I hope his counselor writes a letter which I doubt?
- ask your school counselor to write a letter to GT regional AO and promise your kid will 100% to attend if admitted, 2. email GT to drop the FAFSA and show your plan to pay the tuition.
OK, I am missing something here.
1 for instate probably letter from counselor will not work, but you can try.
2 has no sense at all. FAFSA will give you at most 5.5k federal loan. (Unless you are very needy family.) Do not drop it. It is not from school funds. It is your loan or federal money!
For your out of state schools that your child is on waitlist pick one that he would like to attend most (not two) Ask counselor to write letter to that school stating that he will 100% attend.
Be careful with UMich - it costs as much as Ivy. They will give you only FAFSA.
None of the school care about FAFSA. It will not stop your child’s admission or make any difference for admission, especially for public schools.
Counselor can write only one letter that your child will 100% attend if accepted.
Use this for school that your child will most likely get to (and you can afford) in current environment. I would suggest UIUC.
thank you @momsearcheng
We thought by dropping FAFSA will also stop HOPE ( GA local ) and that will help our case because we will be paying 30K per year ( instate minus HOPE and Pell and whatnot) . We are planning to call Hope today. We didn’t know they are unrelated. I will this is very clear to us.
Exactly ( saw 5.5 K yesterday while we were working on GSU acceptance)
@tenseMom and do not even think to drop Hope!!!
Non of other states have such support.
My sister got her education because of Hope!
Dropping Hope will not get you to GaTech! Do not do it! It will strip money from your family if your son will end up in Georgia School.
Wait a minute! Your son qualify for PellGrant?
Then he is in GaTech next year in any major! Who give you advises in HS?
Guys use GOOGLE!
Talent Initiative Pathway Criteria
After graduating from high school, complete a minimum of 30 semester hours (or 45 quarter hours) at an accredited college in the United States.
Complete all required courses based on your intended major prior to the established course requirement deadline.
Establish a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher and a combined math/science GPA of 3.3 or higher. The cumulative GPA includes all courses taken at all colleges and/or universities attended. The math/science GPA includes a combination of all mathematics courses at the calculus level and higher along with all natural science courses including both lecture and laboratory components.
Apply for transfer admission by the fall application deadline and submit all official transcript(s) showing completion of the above criteria by the corresponding document deadline for that term.
Stop everything! Do not drop any financial aid! Do not go OOS to any school! Go to GSU. Get GPA 3.3 (should not be too difficult) Use Talent Pathway next year. Your son will be in GaTech with Hope, PellGrant and everything else for ANY MAJOR he wants.
Relax!
Above is for @tenseMom
@momsearcheng
Thank you so much. NOPE we don’t qualify for PELL 
(problem of middle class). Just found out he qualify for Zen miller for good grades, and HOPE because we live here in GA. It was me who got confused with these grants names and whatnot ( didn’t know Pell is like a QUEST bridge).
Never had to know for past 18 years. Well he will think about regents pathway. Again thank you.
I should have googled instead of beating myself up. Son knew this from getgo 
@tenseMom get advice from someone who knows all current ins and outs in Georgia programs. Georgia has amazing support for its students.
Use GaTech website a lot. Most people on the forum have no clue about Georgia specific programs. I happened to know some info since I used to live in Georgia.
Never give up financial aid you are eligible for except loans! Use all scholarships your son can get.
Any one today?
Not today. I wonder if they are done pulling kids off…
I think they will do after tomorrow .
Do you know of any in state kids that have gotten off the waitlist? I wonder if legacy status has any bearing on their decisions…
Is that 5,500 loan good thing to take, even though that is a small amount? (and we are able to survive without that, for an in-state college)
ANy experts?
My son told me that his friends aren’t off either.
Please let us know. We thought if you take FAFSA out Hope will be gone.
@tenseMom I am from New York, yes there is definitely a chance