Here's the latest Financial Aid update. Man was I naive when I started this process! I had blithely assumed that obviously, because I have a full-time job and a household to support, someone would give me the money to keep that household running once I was no longer working full-time. I'm adorable!
So - no. There's something called the Cost of Attendance, and it's calculated and fixed and no matter what combination of grants, loans, etc. you end up with, they will only ever add up to your Cost of Attendance. The trick is to convince the school to increase your Cost of Attendance budget. Which they will only consider doing to help cover the cost of childcare. Which kind of works out perfectly because other than our mortgage, that's our single biggest Culbertson expense. So I'm headed back to the Financial Aid office this afternoon to kick of that discussion. And I'm bringing Julian with me. Maybe I'll pinch him to make him cry if the finaid lady starts being mean to me.
smart move using the kid :)
Posted by: Melissa | April 03, 2009 at 10:08 PM