Tulane 2025- financial aid?

scubaboulder
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 04:40:56 +0000

Our daughter got into Tulane ED, and we finally got our financial award letter last Friday. It was shockingly low, with less than $10k in grants including Pell Grant, and our EFC is 0. She also got into another university in CA (EA) and their financial aid is extremely generous, with $38K in grants. We are puzzled by the huge difference and have emailed the Tulane financial aid counselor assigned to our family on Monday, but have yet to hear back from her even though we are supposed to make our deposit in 2 days since daughter is an ED admit.

Does anyone know if this is normal with Tulane? My son applied last year and almost every single university he got into was generous with their aid, and when you call the office folks were super helpful and responsive (even during Covid). We are feeling a bit hesitant having our daughter go to Tulane. So far, the communication with Tulane’s financial aid office has been underwhelming to say the least, and their ED policy had always made me uncomfortable. Daughter REALLY wants to go, but I feel very ambivalent…