Scholarships & Financial Aid

Lima
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:09:06 +0000

Ok, Lucky, as a scholarship recipient, I’ll answer your question.

All students who apply are considered for scholarships. However, the amount of some full scholarships (like the semifinalist, and I suppose, the presidential) depends on the amount of grant-based financial aid you qualify for. So, they’re not going to take away scholarship money and make you pay loans, but if they can get out of paying some scholarship money by taking the funds from federal grant money, they will.

Hence, anyone who wishes to get any merit based scholarship should file their FAFSA and CSS by the deadline, which is 2/1, I believe. I had to file these forms for my merit scholarship (offered with my EA acceptance), just to make sure I don’t qualify for any grant money that doesn’t need to come out of Fordham’s merit-based aid pool. But they’re covering my full tuition (essentially) either way.

I can quote my letter if you want, but it’s late and I’m tired and I’d hope you’d believe me.