How affordable can BU be?

shaedow
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:28:37 +0000

The financial aid can vary a good amount. In general, the financial aid office meets a higher percentage of your need the stronger an applicant you are. If you’re barely being admitted at all, they probably won’t come near 100%, but if you’re a good applicant that they really want, they might meet 90-100%.

Personally, the FAFSA form calculated my EFC as 15000, and they have me paying between 19-20k out of pocket, so that’s pretty close, especially if you take into account that they calculate the need differently. But, I had higher test scores/rank/etc than average (35 ACT, 2/~180)

This isn’t a hard and fast rule though, and they definitely have discretion on how they implement it. I’ve met people who didnt have the test scores I did that got really good aid, and others with better that got less.