<p>I’m a senior in high school and right now i really, really want to go to Chicago for physics. It has most things i want in a college and i love the city. However, my family does not quite qualify for financial aid (through FAFSA anyways) and the cost might be a factor in me not being able to attend. That being said, is it possible that i might be offered financial aid from the college? What other kinds of programs do they have to help students financially?</p>
<p>Chicago offers some merit aid - I think some were 9500, and a small number of 31,000 scholarships for the most highly qualified students. </p>
<p>The princeton university aid estimator was pretty close at predicting my son’s package. It is possible that you may do better with the institutional methodology - worth looking at, anyway.</p>
<p>Plus loans are available regardless of income.</p>
<p>Chicago’s financial aid is hit-or-miss, so you might qualify for some FA. Chicago was very helpful about my bargaining for more FA money, so it’s not impossible to ask for (more) FA. Consider [this</a> chart](<a href=“http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=68]this”>http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=68) if you haven’t already. For merit aid, Chicago offers three scholarships:
~30 full tuition scholarships
~150 $9500 scholarships
$2500 National Merit scholarships :)</p>