Notre Dame Scholars

nemo2001
Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:10:52 +0000

ditto on the ND scholar not helping much. In fact truth be told it claims you get preferential treatment, but to be perfectly candid I didn’t see it happening at least as far as I am concerned. I came to ND for a couple of reasons, and no one of them wasn’t because it was my dream school. Basically it came down to the fact that I got in here EA and came up and looked around; oh and the fact that I was waitlisted everywhere else I applied except for some schools in my home state…

Now then on to financial aid. Everyone’s situation will be different so DO NOT read too much into my own experience. Personally I graduate with somewhere between 20-25K in debt to my name. This is all in form of federal stanford loans, thankfully these are all of the subsidized form. Now that’s not too bad a debt to come out with. But it has taken my parents some sacrafices and going into debt themselves for me to come here. ND told us that they would take into consideration the fact that my sister was in catholic HS, turns out we noticed a year or so down the line when she started college how this wasn’t true…

Their are certain other things in my family in terms of special situations that I do know ND did consider so that’s something. Of course I think it helped that when I was up visiting the Honors Program in the spring, my family and I dropped in on the financial aid office and asked to speak with one of their representatives and explain some of the specifics of our case. We brought the documentation to back us up…kinda funny to watch the rep deal with a real person…

good luck in dealing with them, it can get interesting…