how to get full tuition scholarship + ?

azmomof1gr8kid
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:22:49 +0000

Here’s my experience with the Arizona schools as far as NMF awards.

UofA - NMF will get 15K + ipad - COA instate is approx 23K. So in our case, we got the award letters stating what his award SHOULD BE, but in reality, his official fin aid award letter currently shows his NMSF award of 9K and the EFC data they have is based on the first FAFSA I did back in January! When I spoke to them last week wanting an updated package using current FAFSA in order for us to make our decision by May 1st, they said that they won’t update the fin aid until after May 1 and won’t show his $15K until he puts them as the TOP CHOICE. So it was frustrating to be able to make a decision or comparison against the private school pkgs. I don’t know whether or not he would have been offered any other monies to gap between the 15K - 23K COA because they don’t do it on the timeline that we needed (by May 1st).

ASU - COA in-state is 25K - NMF award is supposed to be 13K - same thing. Award letter is out of date on the website. No updates will take place until after selecting as top choice, but then it makes it difficult to compare.

Out of state may be handled completely differently. I’m not sure.