I got my financial aid disbursemment letter in the mail today so you are in luck. To briefly answer your question about financial aid, youre gonna have to fill out fafsa and go through stafford loans unless you have a rich relative. The max for stafford loans per year is $40,500, so thats what you will get. $8,500 of that is subsidized and 32,000 of it is unsubsidized, so you will end up paying greater interest on the larger amount. Theres a fixed interest rate for these loans at 6.8%. Annual tuition, fees, etc comes out to be 36,500 or thereabouts, so your stafford loans will cover all that stuff, plus leave about 4000 extra for books, equipment, and other stuff. If you need monthly money to live on to pay for rent, car, food, etc, then you need to go for a federal grad plus loan. I think the max that you can borrow per school year is $21,000 for that, which is more than enough. Thats an 8.5% interest rate, so if you dont need 21k a year, only take what you need to prevent paying interest on money you dont use. Once you get accepted(hopefully), then you can start worrying about filling out all the logistics and filling out all the paperwork, but dont be timid, people have been doing this for a long time and it eventuall gets paid off. Of course another option would be to join the military and let the goveernment pay your tuition and give you a nice monthly allowance plus a 20 grand signing bonus, but thats another topic. If you have more specific questions, ask 'em. Who interviewed you by the way? I saw you guys but never got to say hi.
