Is Chicago actually affordable?

menloparkmom
Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:30:06 +0000

as I am not a Fafsa pro, maybe you should post that question on the financial aid/ scholarships forum. Swimcatsmom, a CC poster, is the Fafsa guru there.
the problem, however, is that Chicago pays more attention to the Profile information, and makes their FA decisions in a very opaque manner. Sorry to say, but when we appealed the original $1K FA loan that chicago offered us, we got nowhere. I believe it was because we were self employed, and even though we have lots of equity in our home, we could not afford to tap it, because with our income we could not qualify for a Home Equity loan. This fell on deaf ears at Chicago. So don’t get your hopes up.