Interesting conversation with Admissions Office

Pattijoa
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:44:59 +0000

I came on looking for some answers about financial aid and found this thread.

My d (vocal perf) has been accepted at 4 colleges: Simpson College, Hartt School, U of Missouri - Kansas City, and U of NC School of the Arts. When we were at Hartt, they told all the parents “no negotiations”, what you get is what you get.

So far, we’ve only received our financial aid package from Simpson. That is her first choice school, but we can’t afford it even with the package. They told us there will be room for negotiation depending on what other schools offer her.

We are starting to get nervous about hearing from the other three schools. Even if she doesn’t get a scholarship from them, shouldn’t she at least get a basic loan package from each of them? Is anyone else still waiting to hear financial aid info from schools? What is the latest I should wait before calling and asking the schools?

Our FAFSA is totally skewed - my husband is self-employed and hasn’t been able to cut himself a paycheck in 3 weeks. So, I guess we’ll have to make an addendum. We just can’t afford to kick in what FAFSA says we should. These financial aid packages really will determine not where my d goes to school, but IF she goes to school. She might have to take a year and work fast food/go to community college. What a waste of talent…