OOS with EFC of zero?

Alliere
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:26:17 +0000

I live in Florida and my family’s EFC is zero. I was accepted to GT and I’m wondering if there’s any chance I’ll be able to afford it. Currently the only other school I’ve been accepted to is University of Central Florida, where I have a full ride and honors college admission. I know UCF is a ‘good’ school and their honors program is supposed to be nice and all, and maybe it’s smarter to get a UCF degree for free rather than a GT one and graduate with massive debt… But GT is just a much, much better school and more suited to my interests. I absolutely don’t want to go to school in Florida, and UCF is the only Florida school that I applied to because it’s the only one I could even consider attending as an absolute last resort. I have applied to private schools that meet 100% need but I have only heard back from one(Harvey Mudd, deferred), and I’m not incredibly hopeful about my prospects at any of them. Which wouldn’t be a problem because I’d love to go to GT anyway, I just don’t think I could afford it.

So I guess my question is does anyone have an estimate of how much aid GT will offer someone with $0 EFC out of state? And is it worth paying however much more to go to GT over UCF?