<p>Emory will try as hard as possible to not give you financial aid. First of all, your SAT scores aren’t that great. Emory will probably have to cut back on financial aid because a lot of professors believe that EmoryAdvantage is draining the school’s budget and are very unhappy. Currently, Emory over promises and under delivers on financial aid. They will probably deny you aid because of any technicality or little mistake you make on the application form.
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<p>"The answer is buried in the aid archives: Emory repeatedly inflated her family’s income without telling her.</p>
<p>Angelica reported that her mother made $35,000 a year and paid about half of that in rent. With her housing costs so high, Emory assumed the family had extra money and assigned Mrs. Lady an income of $51,000. But Mrs. Lady was not hiding money. She was paying inflated post-hurricane rent with the help of Federal disaster aid.</p>
<p>By counting money the family did not have, Emory not only increased the amount it expected Angelica to pay in addition to her financial aid. It also disqualified her from most of the school’s touted program of debt relief. Under the Emory Advantage plan the school replaces loans with grants for families making less than $50,000 a year. Moving Angelica just over the threshold placed her in a less-generous tier and forced her to borrow an additional $15,000 before she could qualify. The mistake will add years to her repayment plan.</p>