FASFA?, how do you know? |
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 Apr 5 2006, 10:31 PM
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 cheeeesy like theres no tomorrow  Group: Member Posts: 3,316 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 37,142  |
Um when you apply for fasfa how do you know how much money you get? Is it when the school you are going to tells you ?
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Apr 5 2006, 11:52 PM
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 hi. call me linda. Group: Official Member Posts: 8,187 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,475 |
Yeah, you don't know until the schools send you your financial aid package. You can sometimes make an estimate based on your EFC (Expected Family Contribution), but I don't think that that is too accurate.
How much money you get also depends on the school though. |
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Apr 5 2006, 11:57 PM
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 wut wut in the butt? Group: Human Posts: 2,108 Joined: Sep 2005 Member No: 227,723 |
^^yeahh, what she said. It all depends on how much your family makes, what school you're going too, if you're working......and some other stuff.
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Apr 6 2006, 09:07 AM
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c[: Group: Member Posts: 2,302 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,876 |
agreed with the two above me, it all depends.
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Apr 8 2006, 01:01 AM
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 "Silly me, I thought this was a free country" Group: Human Posts: 1,666 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 60,913 |
QUOTE(silver rain @ Apr 5 2006, 11:52 PM)  Yeah, you don't know until the schools send you your financial aid package. You can sometimes make an estimate based on your EFC (Expected Family Contribution), but I don't think that that is too accurate. How much money you get also depends on the school though. Yea, that... |
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Apr 9 2006, 02:38 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,584 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 70,748 |
^ haha agreed
you file ur fafsa and then in late march you start getting stuff from colleges and itll include your financial aid package which tells u how much ur getting based on ur tax forms and ur parent contribution and how much the school is willing to provide |
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Apr 10 2006, 05:45 PM
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 Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
The FAFSA is retarded. It doesn't take into account what your expenses are, just how much money you earn. My EFC for freshman year was like...$43,000, so off the mark, but I got about half-tuition, which was good.
That contributed nothing to the topic at hand, I just wanted to vent my frustration 
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Apr 11 2006, 01:24 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 650 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 84,519 |
QUOTE(pandamonium @ Apr 5 2006, 11:31 PM) Um when you apply for fasfa how do you know how much money you get? Is it when the school you are going to tells you ? Like the above have said, you'll know when the schools send it out. I've known of situations where one gives you more than the other, and people have griped to the latter to get more. The administrators actually fold to that. |
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