Tentative Award: Confused

bjwlmom
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:27:02 +0000

My daughter last week. “received” a tentative financial aid award of $43k (mostly in grants and abt 9K in loans). We were ecstatic as you can imagine. Annual tuition with room and board is $57. This weekend she checked her aid info again and to her surprise it had been revised, only giving her less than half of what was originally published. We will be calling the school financial aid office but I wonder if anyone has had this experience. Any insight on what this means and what we could do would be greatly appreciated. This is our first experience with college admissions and frankly I am frustrated and confused. She was accepted at her first choice school but they gave her nothing in financial aid. I felt mislead as we did their preliminary EFC calculations to see if there may even be a chance to get aid and it showed that we could possibly get 2/3 of the tuition in aid! But to get nothing at all after applying and getting accepted is heartbreaking.