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So I just got my "tentative" financial aid from Downstate, and I'm now realizing that I am absolutely clueless when it comes to this stuff. I need to accept or reject it, and I don't even know what half of it means!
I am basically given three loans - Perkins, Stafford, and Stafford Unsubsidized. This covers all but $4000 of my estimated budget. The biggest loan is the unsubsidized one, which I'm told (by them, in the same letter) is bad, and that I should try to not use it. Then what am I supposed to cover the $16,000 it's worth with? And what do I do to cover the $4000? Get a general loan from a bank?
Thanks everyone.
Clueless in Carolina....
I am basically given three loans - Perkins, Stafford, and Stafford Unsubsidized. This covers all but $4000 of my estimated budget. The biggest loan is the unsubsidized one, which I'm told (by them, in the same letter) is bad, and that I should try to not use it. Then what am I supposed to cover the $16,000 it's worth with? And what do I do to cover the $4000? Get a general loan from a bank?
Thanks everyone.
Clueless in Carolina....