Travel Cost/Laptop

twinmom
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:31:18 +0000

Hamman: You should understand that Harvard is not giving you the money to travel. When they created your financial aid package, they included an estimated amount of money as part of a travel budget. They do the same thing for books. They DO NOT give you the money for books or travel. This is not an uncommon way to design a financial aid package.

In other words, if they budgeted $1000 for books and you only spent $800, you would not get a $200 credit. It works the same way for travel, whether you’re over or under.

The financial aid officers at Harvard are wonderful. Call to go over your package with an officer. Feel free to nicely let them know if you have a better financial aid (not merit aid) package from a peer institution. They will likely work with you.