My daughter’s FA Summary lists the Estimated Cost of Attendance as $66,913, with Tuition as $59,260. But they also falsely assumed and defaulted to remote learning.
Last year, the Estimated Cost of Attendance was $10,546 higher, $77,459, with room estimates of $9,612 and board estimates of $6,300.
Since she is contractually committed to non-USC Housing, we have already submitted online through the FAST portal a Financial Aid Summary update to confirm that she will be there for both terms utilizing Non-USC Housing. Additionally, we uploaded a copy of that executed lease. Both of those steps are required to have them re-do the aid #s.
In reply, FA emailed her stating that all FA summaries were defaulted to remote learning but that her summary will be redone asap.
So those steps are necessary for all those utilizing non-USC housing.
For those utilizing USC Housing, they will automatically re-do the summary once USC Housing locks in.
Therefore, differentials in aid at this stage could be primarily due to the differentials in estimated total costs.
Good luck getting everything straightened out eventually…