<p>Thank you all for your help!
I talked to financial aid and she told me theres not much in general they can do about my situation. (My family has a small asset- small- that they seem to expect us to liquidate and we don’t have the right to do so.)
They told me to apply to other schools and they’ll match other Ivy financial aid packages so that is what I have done and now am waiting for. All other schools that applied to take the asset into account, which I understand they have to do, but also give me some aid. Anxious for d-day!
Once again, thanks for all your help :)</p>
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<p>What Yale’s Financial Aid Office probably expects – and I imagine most other peer schools will to – is for your family to take out a loan using the asset as collateral. For example, if the asset was a house, colleges’s (rightly or wrongly) expect families to take out a home-equity loan to pay for college expenses. That’s just a financial reality when a family owns something that has appreciable worth or equity.</p>
<p>I totally understand that expectation, I just was kind of hurt by receiving zero aid from it all, when peer school’s calculators calculate the asset much differently.
(About 15k-20k per year, depending on the school, compared to Yale’s goose egg.)
I think I can probably get into at least one of the other schools I applied to, so hopefully it’ll pan out!</p>
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<p>If you are accepted to one of those other schools and they calculate your “need” (no merit aid) better than Yale did, call Yale’s FA office and tell them. Be prepared to fax over the other offer. Yale may then recalculate your aid and either match the offer or better it. If that happens, make sure to ask for a side letter though, stating that if your parents income remains the same, you will receive the same percentage of aid during your sophomore, junior and senior years.</p>
<p>Yale did say they would look at recalculating it upon other acceptances to other ivies (so those are the only places I applied.)
Thank you, Gibby, for the note about keeping the aid. Thats something I was worried about and not really sure how to do. Good to remember.
Thank you for the help yet again!</p>
<p>YoHoYoHo - thanks so much for tracing out to me. Apparently I haven’t posted enough to be able to respond to you! Drat!</p>
<p>I guess I’ll post four more times to put me over the 15 post minimum.</p>
<p>Please forgive me, everyone for wasting your time like this! Two more to go…</p>
<p>I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday so far. We have been down with a horrible flu. Don’t get it!</p>
<p>Wooohooo! That’s 15! I guess I’m official now.</p>
<p>I’ll bet that 15 post minimum seemed like a good idea at one time.</p>
<p>Here is a strange question for you guys: the Olympics are coming up and my daughter would like to watch them on tv. Her boyfriend lives off campus. He has a tv, but not cable (he only uses it for netflix and his blu-ray). Could he get NBC over the air in NH if he had an antenna? Are the tv signals strong enough there?</p>
<p>Tamara6, go to antennaweb.org and it will tell you (based on zip code) about the signal and recommended antenna type. I don’t know if NBC’s secondary channels are available over the air.</p>
<p>Most students will get back to campus this weekend. Hope your S/D will have an uneventful trip back to campus. The weather seems to be not that bad on Saturday.</p>
<p>Just curious, do most students from the east coast go back to campus on Saturday? Or, do they just go back one day before the class starts?</p>
<p>My D is so close she goes back Sunday afternoon but she said most east coast friends come on Sunday unless it’s more convenient for them to come Saturday. It varies by transportation and what the weather looks like. We have a warm front which is nice, no snow storms to worry about.</p>
<p>S went back already on Thursday. He likes having the whole weekend to get settled in again and ready for another semester. Last one for him!</p>
<p>We’re on the East Coast (DC area) and S pretty much always goes back on Saturday after breaks. This time he went up to NY yesterday for the hockey game and spent the night in the city; he’s on his way up to NH now.</p>
<p>We’re on the East Coast, and my daughter went back by train on Saturday. I think there was some social activity planned for later in the evening.</p>
<p>After some breaks, especially a longer one, it seems DS is actually looking forward to going back to campus. He said the life there is much more active than the life back home. I guess it is also because we have moved to a new city and his old friends are not in this city.</p>
<p>We feel that DS becomes more and more like a east coaster over the past 7 or so years. We won’t be surprised that he may end up settling down on the east coast.</p>
<p>We appreciate very much that he has been back home to see us during almost all breaks in the past. But it is only natural that he will eventually be more independent of us after he has stayed thousands of miles from us for such a long time.</p>