New York's Excelsior Scholarship

techmom99
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:21:02 +0000

Actually, the income is going up to $110K for the next school year and $125K for the year after. It’s based on federal AGI, so I don’t know what’s going to happen with the new tax bill.

I wasn’t able to get it for S17 for this school year (by about $100 of income) AND I have to pay an extra $100 per semester charge to help pay for other people I was okay with not getting it, but I am burned about having to pay extra for other people’s kids. Maybe if I made a lot over the limit, I wouldn’t feel this way, but if you take off the extra money I have to pay for other people’s kids from my income instead, I would have qualified. I don’t think I will get it this year - I just got around to filing FAFSA because it just seems like a waste of time.

I think Excelsior is great, don’t get me wrong, I am just bitter about being penalized for not being eligible.