2024-2025 Dartmouth (Geisel)

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Financial aid award letter was received, unsure how to feel about it. Anyone else have any thoughts on the schools need based policies?

Could you elaborate more on your situation? I want to apply to Dartmouth in the future but finaid is a big factor for me
 
Financial aid award letter was received, unsure how to feel about it. Anyone else have any thoughts on the schools need based policies?
Got mine too! Yeah... crazy that they give you $50K+ of loans before giving you any need-based scholarship...
 
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I'm not 100% sure but I think it's just a generic term for need based aid provided by the school. They sent a financial aid letter which covers cost of tuition in loans and scholarships, one of which they listed as "Geisel Scholarship"
 
Is Geisel doing an in-person second look event for accepted students in addition to the virtual second look?
 
50,000 scholarship offered from Geisel for the 75,000 tuition + fee, so I'd only have to pay 25,000 a year. I was also given enough federal loan to cover tuition with leftover money I can borrow for room and board.
 
50,000 scholarship offered from Geisel for the 75,000 tuition + fee, so I'd only have to pay 25,000 a year. I was also given enough federal loan to cover tuition with leftover money I can borrow for room and board.

I saw on the website that they mentioned a base loan. Is that a combination of federal and institutional loans?
 
I saw on the website that they mentioned a base loan. Is that a combination of federal and institutional loans?
The federal loan I was given was like around 47k- the institutional loan was separate, it was very small…like 3k for the whole year or something (which I won’t be needing- I’m going to live in a rat)
 
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