Stanfords PR about financial Aid

arwen15
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:01:26 +0000

2boysima, Yes you are correct. (Colleges ask for monthly expenditure
details when they want to validate income- not to be confused with
line 37 of 1040)

Given the same Federal and CSS/Profile documents were sent
to the other schools, error and miscommunication can be safely
ruled out.

Interestingly MIT did not do much PR, yet I find their aid is in line
with what Stanford anounced (but does not practice). If there is
fine print, Stanford needs to make this visible for future applicants
and their parents. I would have looked at it understood the underlying
structure and decided much like I decided with A.B. Duke- okay
this is not for me for the following reasons…

Clarification:
I did not say I did not qualify for fin aid from Stanford. My point is that
Stanford did not keep its word about parental and family contribution
per its PR for lowest income applicants i.e. $0 family contribution +
the usual work allocation.