What to do...

milkandsugar
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:03:35 +0000

Nedel,
I posted on your other thread, before I saw this one. D is taking only the fed loans. We cut some of the costs, by doing LCT in Rubin freshman year. That was a huge savings.
My D was also given 10,000 but she appealed over the phone and they gave her 2000 more immediately over the phone, it’s definitely worth a try. If you are going to do this, it absolutely needs to be done before you accept the admission.
If you look at your billable costs it is lower than the actual posted COA.
She also gets her books online used and much cheaper than the book store. We waived Health insurance, and in her sophomore year we eliminated the meal plan because they all have kitchens and her dorm was above a trader joes. These were all things we did to keep costs down. I know it is a hard decision.