<p>Which of these schools are generous when it comes to giving aid(loans,grants, scholarships(?)) to transfers? My dad makes over 200K yearly so the only aid i get at my state school is usually a 2000 dollar stafford loan. Still havn’t finished paying my spring 07 tuition bill.
And if all these schools are wicked, which prestigious universities are generous?</p>
<p>How come he isn’t paying for your tuition? If you’re a low income independent, you could get extremely good fin aid.</p>
<p>if you don’t mind me asking, what does your dad do?</p>
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<p>LOL. greed i guess. I’ve accepted the fact that its HIS money, not mine.</p>
<p>But I have 3 siblings. One has a job and is going to start med school this fall. One dropped out coz he couldn’t afford tuition and the other is doing ‘OK.’ Basically i have to get my credit together by next fall so that i can take out loans if the aid that these schools give(if i’m accepted to any of them) doesn’t fully meet my need.</p>
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<p>But for financial aid purposes i’m considered a dependant. Unless there’s some type of program that i dont know about?</p>
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<p>He’s the vice president of either rohm and haas or morton powder coatings.I THINK morton.</p>
<p>penn will probably give you the best aid package, then columbia, and carnegie. ivy league schools are generally more generous with their aid.</p>
<p>so i should send these schools letters explaining my situation when i apply?</p>
<p>Columbia states they have very limited funds for transfers. Probably best to check with the few recently accepted transfer students to see if they will reveal their FA package + EFC to you. You could do the same for the many Penn transfers and, if there were any, the Carnegie transfers. I’m willing to guess Penn gives the most, then Carnegie, then Columbia.</p>
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<p>No because there are many people like you. Admissions does not care as long as the school is need-blind (I think Carnegie is, know Penn and Columbia are). Admissons also has no power over such things; the financial aid office has heard this story I’m sure. the only way to be considered without his money taken into account is to go through a procedure that makes you independent, though it’s very difficult to do / be eligible for.</p>
<p>i doubt i’ll get ANY aid if i just fill out the fafsa with my dads 200K+ salary on it. There would be no reason for them to give me aid. So i need to somehow apprise them of my situation…no?</p>
<p>penn leaves a spot at the end of their financial aid application to describe any situations like yours, for example that your financial aid numbers wouldn’t really show like that baller income.</p>
<p>I read at UPenn’s site that if you get accepted and you have financial need THEY WILL cover what you need. I think they prefer to have top notch students and have to give them scholarships… this way their prestige is kept… than to have mediocres that can pay the bill </p>
<p>I also read in Business Week that they helped 100% of the students with need.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the other two school. Good luck.</p>
<p>pcristiani - I wouldn’t misunderstand that. Many top schools guarantee to meet 100% of need, but that in no way means they give scholarships to cover everything (or anything!). Sometimes schools will “meet need” by giving you government loans and referring you to private loan providers. Not really that helpful, but it’s something I guess. </p>
<p>At practically any school, scholarships and grants are harder to come by for transfers.</p>
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<p>Yeah that’s what I was trying to say…</p>
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<p>right but just noting that often times if you need $35,000 a school like Penn might give you $20,000 in grants, another $6,000 in govt. subsidized loans, and then refer you to somewhere to get the rest. However, that other $9,000 of your “need” still will require your parents to cosign (unless you have great credit which is rare), in addition to the $15,000 or so that made up your hypothetical EFC. Point being, even if a school says it will meet 100% of need, it’s not always as good as it sounds. In the end, you will have to take out and get a cosigner on loans for both your EFC and the difference that scholarships/govt. loans didn’t make up, which sucks. It’s a shame the schools don’t actually refer students to loan providers that would give loans based on academic merit and not require a cosigner as that little requirement is usually what screws students over and keeps them from going to the best school.</p>