Travel Cost/Laptop

gadad
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:56:48 +0000

Hamman - By all means, ask if they would reconsider your travel budget. FA will also allow you to use up to $2500 of outside scholarships to purchase a laptop, one time, at the start of your freshman year. If you get a greater amount of outside scholarships than that, H will first use them to replace the annual amount that students are asked to contribute from their own earnings (I think it’s something like $2750 a year). After that they would reduce your unmet need, and therefore lower your faculty scholarship. But if you can talk the provider of the scholarship into deferring the funds to a later year, FA is fine with that. My D deferred some scholarship funds that way, then did a study-abroad program offered by Boston Univ. over last summer, and the outside scholarship provider agreed to send the money to BU to cover the study abroad. We’ve had nothing but great cooperation and great service from FA officers there.