Travel Cost/Laptop

Hamman
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:07:29 +0000

I just received my financial aid package from harvard today. They gave me 700 dollars for travel but I was hoping for at least 1500 dollars. Do you think it’s appropriate for me to ask them to raise my cost of attendance so I can get more FA to travel with every year? I live far away so it will cost me about 250 every time I want to go visit my family. I really don’t want to visit just 3 times a year.

Also, I’m hoping to get a computer for college and I was thinking of using some of my outside scholarship money to get a laptop. I’m also planning to ask the FA office to raise my COA so the scholarship money can go towards the laptop.

I received their harvard faculty scholarship, which I guess is their way of just filling whatever that my parents couldn’t afford. If I do happen to get outside scholarships and they exceed my unmet need, will harvard lower this scholarship amount?

I would love to hear from anyone who has had experience with asking harvard to modify their financial aid package/cost of attendance.