How is need based financial aid at BU?

mkat12
Sun, 07 Aug 2016 07:16:38 +0000

I toured the campus this summer and absolutely loved it! Boston is looking like my #1 choice as it stands right now, but the only problem is the cost. I’m confident in my ability to get into BU, but not confident enough in my profile to be granted enough merit aid to get the cost to what I need it to be. My parents are willing to send me to any college as long as it is around 30K a year. That means more than half of my tuition would need to be covered. How is BU typically with financial aid based on need? We are a middle class family, I believe they make about 120k a year between the two of them. I am the last of three children, and the only one they actively have to support, they put the other two through college already. Does anyone have an estimate of what I could expect for financial aid?