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Not Enough Aid
I am planning to attend Tulane University this fall and was hoping to qualify for a large scholarship. They already awarded me $25,000 a year on merit, but my family was hoping for some need-based money as well. According to their website, Tulane offers students with families making under $75,000 a year complete, loan-free tuition. We though we qualified! Both the FAFSA and the CSS profile were turned in on time, but I just received my aid offer and there is no need-based scholarship whatsoever. I didn't qualify for anything but loans and work-study. How is this possible? Both my parents are unemployed and over retirement age; we cannot afford to pay the remaining $25,000 a year without more aid! So what should I do now?
Should I try contacting Tulane's financial aid office? If I do contact them, how likely is it that they will increase my scholarship? Any advice on what to do, including outside sources for tuition money or colleges with low tuition/generous aid packages, would be greatly appreciated.
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If you are not even getting the federal need based ones it might not even have been the colleges decision. The budget has really been cut. You definitely should go into the office and see if they can recommend anything else you can do. You can also try a scholarship search engine. There are a lot of really random scholarships out there, like ones for people who live on streets named after presidents. It's possible the office made a mistake, so you should definitely go in and talk to them.
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