Sentences with phrase «better financial aid package»

If you've applied to a number of different schools with good financial aid packages then by the time you start getting your acceptance letters, you should have a number of schools that you can choose from based on the academics, the student experience, and the financial aid available.

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Excess consumer debt may even force you to take an outside job, which for many students isn't a good idea; an outside job may distract you from your studies and disrupt your financial - aid package.

But student loans — loans included in your financial aid package and guaranteed by the federal government at a low interest rate — are one thing; loans for, well, just about anything else are a completely different matter.

For - profit schools in particular can be really good at helping students get their financial aid packages taken care of, he says.

Some financial aid packages can even assist with travel, if you're applying to a boarding school, as well as school supplies and activities.

This story, the third in a series by The Hechinger Report, highlights the difficult decisions our students and their families face when choosing a college because of gaps in their financial aid packages, as well as concerns regarding campus life.

We can tell our kids to live off campus, but (a) a lot of colleges force students to live on campus for at least their fist year, (b) depending on the area it may not be significantly cheaper to live off campus, (c) living off campus can reduce one's financial aid package, and (d) our kids then spend a good deal of their time shopping for and preparing food and getting to and from campus, rather than studying.

Getting your financial aid package after submitting your FAFSA forms is both an exciting and nerve - racking experience, and for good reason: It feels a lot like your entire future is contained in those forms.

I was so happy to get into my «reach» school (top 3) that I immediately accepted instead of thinking of the crippling debt that would come with it, though I could have gone to a very good school (top 25) for what now seems like nothing as I got a nice financial aid package.

Even better, many of these regional schools offer financial aid or scholarship packages, making them a bargain from a financial perspective.

It's often a good idea to wait to cut a school until after you receive a financial aid package.