I accepted over $11,000 in financial aid. Is this a lot for a full time student in a state college?

Question

I'll be working full time anyway, but I'm also a single mom so they gave me the maximum for grants.

Answer 1

How does your aid package compare to your costs? If that $11,000 is all federal and/or institutional funding and it covers most of your costs, I'd say you made out pretty well.

Federal grant aid can be hard to come by and very often it doesn't cover a student's full costs of attendance. In fact, it's not uncommon for the same student to be offered a the same federal aid package at both a $30,0000/year school and a $10,000/year school. As such, even if you were attending a higher-cost private school and were offered that same amount of funding, I'd still consider that "a lot."

Answer 2

Not until you get in line for a decent job behind 5000 welfare recipients sponsored by the state for employment preference for each job-that is if no one is transferring laterally. I mean really.

Answer 3

Yeh this amount may be sufficient but it depends on so many other factore. You should visit www.admissionglobal.com and study "study in USA section. You'll find the cost of many US institutions.