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I GOT THE EMAIL TOO!!!!!!!!!!! I'm entering my 2nd year in a BSN program at a private university. Congrats to everyone and good luck!!!! Hopefully we'll find out soon. :yeah::yeah:

Hi nazifa I applied and was approved for a private student loan (needed one to cover living expenses). It shouldn't be too hard although you may need a cosigner, I shopped around and found most banks offered more or less the same loans and interest rates for students. Good luck! Has anyone else here applied for the hrsa scholarship?

Mine is fine.

Hi...Britt 7 I think your right. We have to figure out a way to pay that semesters tuition by it's due date, then if we're lucky enought to receive the scholarship the school will bill hrsa and return the funds to where ever it is they came from. Although the I'm not sure what exactly happens to funds that were taken out as a govt./private loan. Maybe someone has an answer for this one: They received my supplemental doc. yesterday ( I know cause I had it tracked), I filled out the online app. about two weeks ago and from what I understand my school mailed in the good standing report around that time frame as well. Do they let you know or is there any way to figure out if your application is complete? I already know about the online one, it's all the mailed in stuff that concerns me.

Hey guys...just checked my emory email account... awards should be posted on OPUS this coming Friday!!

I haven't heard a thing:(

Well that would be b/c it was a response to an email I sent her. That's why I posted it...figured others would want to know as well.

I just received an email from Katie that said the Neat decisions will be mailed out early next week :)

Thanks for replying Megan...I have not heard anything about anything. Hopefully we'll have some news soon!

Was anyone able to attend the open house yesterday? I really wanted to go but I'm in a different state and it just didn't work out. Any info to share (hopefully about fin. aid or neat)? Thanks:)

That's funny, I just finished reading last years thread and it seems anywhere between mid April to June.

One more thing...does anyone have any knowledge of actually getting a job after graduation. I keep reading all these blogs of how the new grad market is dead and many new nurses can't find jobs. Is Emory truely worth the high tuition?

Your SAR report should give you an idea of what kind of federal aid to expect, if any. I'm basing this on how my fin. aid worked out for me this year. I'm currently at a c.c but I'm not working so i decided to apply for aid. I only qualified for a governors tuition wavier, keep in mind this a c.c where a unit costs around 20 bucks. I was mailed a letter with the "estimated cost of existing" while in school with my efc which was around a couple grand and that wavier deducted. For remaining amount I took out a goverment loan. To ansewer your question, I believe you'll have to cover your efc and hope and pray that they come up with some amazing grants for you. I guess the burden of getting accepted is the stress of having to figure out how to pay for that education. I'm in the same boat you are (support myself, independent), I think the only thing to do now is to just wait and see what kind of aid will be offered and take it from there. Good luck and I hope you get good news!

Hi Nazifa...Good luck with the NEAT. Financial aid pretty much works like this (or at least it has everytime I had to deal with it). The school will calculate an estimated annual cost for a student to attend, now this should include books, housing, transportation, etc. They'll take that number and subtract your efc and other aid you may be receiving. Whatever the final product is will be the amount that you either a. need to come up with or b. borrow. The good news is that there are subsidized and unsubsidized stafford loans bad news is that I think the max. you can get is 15,000 a year between the two of them. If you've covered that estimated amount then your set, if not and you've used all the possible fin. aid resources available to you, you'll need to apply for a personal loan and those, lacking a better word- just suck. If you find yourself applying for a stafford loan don't stress it-they're super easy. The fin. aid office usually takes care of the paper work, all you have to do is read and sign some forms(they want to make sure you understand that at some point you have to pay them back including the interest and some other blah, blah, blah) and maybe choose the bank you'll be borowing from. The bank will then issue a check each semester to the school, the school will then deposit that money into your school account and that is more or less how it works. These loans are super human friendly, by that I mean, you don't begin repayment until about six months after you graduate, if for what ever reason you loose your job you can defer payments for a certain period of time without it affecting your credit, or if you decide to get your masters the payments will be defered until you obtain that degree-although I'm not sure if the principle will continue to acquire interest but to be on the safe side I would say yes. Personal loans are not that forgiving. The school may have a list of preferred lenders but you have to take it from there. You most likely need good credit or a co-signer. Hopefully you won't need to find out too much info on how these loans work cause you won't need to apply for them...right :) Hope that helped and good luck!!! There is a ton of info on the web regarding school loans if Emory's site does not ansewer all your questions.

I just realized it's past five on Friday...I was wondering if anyone knows to what office I should send the NEAT application? lyneiwoodward- thank you and your classmates so much for all of your posts...they have been so helpful and full of useful information. Do you know how many students usually receive the NEAT? Congratulations to everyone!!!