3. About What We Do
3. About What We Do
This blog is officially closed and will now only exist as an archive of past posts.
Please visit the new blog at http://daniel.mitblogs.com.
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Hey all!
Sorry for the long delay in posting but life has been crazy for me... Since we last spoke:
I've traveled to Philadelphia for a 568 group meeting. We've started discussing proposed changes and refinements to the methodology we use to determine
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Hey all! Several items of update.
First off, I am back in Cambridge, having arrived during an eventful Wednesday evening thunderstorm. It was great to be in Aspen, but it is even greater to be home. The presentation in Aspen was a great success,
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Well as one year ends, another begins...
Today we are sending out nearly 1200 upperclass student award letters. This is the first round of award letters for upperclass domestic students for 2005-2006 (we started sending international upperclass student
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Here is an update to where things stand on the Federal Budget end. This also updates you all as to the status of the Perkins Loan action which I know many of you participated in previously (and I thank you for your help there).
This note comes to you
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As you undoubtedly know, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a Direct Lending institution, allowing you to borrow your student loans directly from the federal government, without the complicated involvement of banks and other lenders. Congress
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Hey all.
Just a brief update since I am in the middle of reading. But reading is actually what this post is about.
What are we up to in the Financial Aid area? Reading. Reading. And more reading. All of us are reading upperclass student application
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Several updates before I begin the main thread of today's post.
First: Today I created two mailing lists. The first is moneyman (or moneyman(at)mit(dot)edu) and the second is barkowitz (or barkowitz(at)mit(dot)edu). Don't know why it took me so long
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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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Today, I set up my facebook profile. I hope to have many friends (and eventually to upload a picture). There were some questions on the set up of my profile I simply didn't feel like sharing the answers to, though. Hmmm... wonder if there ever comes
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A couple of other items of interest:
For International Freshmen, we are providing copies of your finalized award letters to the ISO directly so that we can produce your I-20. We are working closely together with the staff of the ISO to make sure this
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It's May 3rd and hopefully all of you who are planning on attending (new Freshmen, that is) have sent your reply form in. As my friends in Admissions close out their books on the class of 2009, we over here in Student Financial Services are still going
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Sorry all, between dealing with emails (over 200 a day), phone calls (don't even ask), questions from my staff, and just trying to spend a little time with my family, the last two weeks have been INSANE!!! So, I haven't been blogging...
Bad me!
But,
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Hi there.
Probably many of you regular blog readers are on your way here to MIT by now, either winging your way in the friendly skies, catching the Greyhound, or riding the rails. For those of you who want a head start on CPW (or for the many of you
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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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First the news:
Autumn was down over the weekend. It appears to be back up now!
We mailed 100 awards today, bringing us to files that completed as of last Friday. We still have many of you we would like to award. GET YOUR FORMS IN!!!
We will
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So sorry for the sibilant subject line, but down to business.
Many of you have had questions about how to satisfy your self help. I invite your questions here as comments to this post, and would also urge current students reading this post to offer
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OK, so your financial aid award has arrived (by the way, we sent 60 more decisions today), and you are somewhat (or extremely) disappointed with the result.
What do you do?
Well, first, breathe... Take a deep breath in, and exhale. Then, take a look
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Sorry I have been an absent partner...
We have been VERY busy trying to keep up with the submission of new documents for people who have not yet received their financial aid award.
So, some quick news:
We are now mailing financial aid award letters
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In order to answer some of the questions that I am sure will be coming, I thought I would describe the process by which we award students (or put together financial aid packages for students). Much of this information is printed in the guidebook to the
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This sign sits on my desk to remind me that I always have something toward which to aspire. Hopefully we've done our job well.
It reads “To give away money is an easy matter...and in any man's [sic] power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how
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I guess in honor of Paul Revere (and by extension, in honor of Evacuation Day), I was put in mind of his hallmark expression during his midnight ride.
My usage in this blog post's title, though, refers to a much more mundane topic: WE MAIL TOMORROW!
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So, it has been incredibly busy in my office. As you now know, decisions will be mailed by the Admissions office on March 11. We hope to have financial aid decisions in those envelopes for those of you (EAs, RDs, Internationals) who have provided us
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All of you who apply for aid will go through a process called verification. In this process, we confirm the information you provided to us against all of the other information we have from you (your tax returns, your W-2 forms, your 1099 forms, etc.,
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Jason Hernandez recently posted on one of my previous blog entries that:
“I recently called into the MIT Financial Aid office about the status of my aid application because the documents I submitted were not acknowledged online or in the letters from
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In her blog, Mitra addressed a question from Changelingpiper about the dilemma in whether to choose a full ride offer from another school over acceptance to MIT. Changelingpiper asked Mitra to share her perspective, and Mitra in fact went farther and
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So, it does occur to me that you haven't met some of the other folks who work in the financial aid area at MIT and maybe it is time for a formal introduction. So, here we go!
The following photo pictures those staff who have assigned alphabetical caseloads
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While my colleagues in the Admissions office continue their Selection process, we in the Financial Aid area have begun our annual reading process. We technically started reading applications on Friday the 11th, but since I have been so busy updating
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Hi all.
Some of you may be hitting this blog for the first time due to a caption on a letter that just got sent to you. On Friday we dropped in the email and regular mail our first communication to early admits, informing you what forms we have received
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So, many people have been asking me how I am going to be spending my time off during winter break. My answer, what time off? Other than the two Friday holidays, my plan is to be here throughout. In fact, this is one of our busiest times of the year,
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So a bit of long overdue answers to your questions.
Chetan's question was the following: “I recently came across a scholarship offered at nsa.gov where, if accepted, nsa would cover my full tuition in exchange for working over the summer and for 1.5*#
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So, I just finished watching a commercial for the next episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. Yes, I’ll admit I am a “Trekkie” (or is that a “Techie”) and that I love and fully relish in the Science Fiction possibilities encompassed by the Star Trek saga.
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Can anyone go to college for free? Is such a thing even possible? We’ve all heard the story of students who have gotten a “free ride” at X, Y or Z college or university, but is that really the case? Can you get a free ride anywhere? Are there free
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