1. How We Determine Your Family Contribution
1. How We Determine Your Family Contribution
This blog is officially closed and will now only exist as an archive of past posts.
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I just finished dinner with the kids, and am getting ready to watch the last regular episode of Survivor, but before I do, I thought I needed to post a little more on the subject of corrections.
This is me on my soapbox, so if you don't want the preaching,
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If you are an incoming Freshman student, this message is for you!
No grandiose ideas in the title. I know that change is meaningful and that you will be undertaking major changes soon as you close the book on your high school life and prepare to enter
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Hi all.
First off, let me say that I am really enjoying the feedback on the previous post. My one logic puzzle has turned into a thread of logic puzzles with a really hard one which Michael posted (Jane and her dad just answered it -- I think), and
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Just wanted to offer one clarification on my student contribution post below.
The numbers I gave ($1500 Freshmen, $2200 Sophomores, $2500 Juniors, $2800 Seniors) are summer earnings expectations for US Citizens and Permanent Residents only. For International
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So, much earlier, I began a post about how we determine your family contribution. I started the conversation by describing the four parts of the contribution and discussed how there are really two methodologies used, one for Federal funds, and one for
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First off, I need to say publicly that the Q-Man is my new personal hero! And also I need to let you know that Autumn is now working! (For those of you not in the know, Autumn is our online tracking system for prospective freshmen which lets you see
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So, it’s time to begin part one of the breakdown of the individual formulas to determine your EFC, and we begin with parent contribution from income. Parental income is really the single largest source of your expected contribution, and serves as the
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I love to sing.
It helps that I sing fairly well (or at least I like to think I do), but I do love to sing.
As for what I sing, it varies from Broadway show-tunes to Abba to Air to Eminem (I have a pretty eclectic taste in music).
And I belong to
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So now it seems time to describe how the determination of your financial contribution happens here at MIT. Suffice it to say that I could write a book on the subject (and indeed, we have one that we use internally) and still not be done with the complete
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