Understanding Your Financial Aid Offer

Comparing college costs is an important part of your decision about which school to attend. If you’re at the point of weighing your options, with financial aid offers in hand, the recording of this event will help you better understand these offers and how to compare between them. Get to know financial aid language, and learn what questions to ask financial aid officers at schools you’re considering. Featuring financial aid and admissions counselors from: Mount Marty University, Stanford University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and University of Michigan. 0:00 Coalition for College Introduction 1:45 Panelist Introductions 2:48 Sample Financial Aid Offers 24:09 If I enroll will my financial aid package change? 26:35 Do offers change from year to year? 29:00 Appeals and SAI 31:30 Understanding your first choice's offer 34:52 Parent Plus Loans 36:40 Personal choices and affordability 39:33 Outside scholarships 40:50 How to involve students and/or parents in the process 43:45 Final Advice