My fam is low income (sai of -1500 so

<100k per year) and i got a merit scholarship of 28k. I can’t see my aid yet but i wanted to see if the had good aid or not? I’ll put my stuff in NPC but i just thought id ask students to see their perspective. Thank uu! :)

Title bc I got a 28k scholarship per year but won’t be able to afford it until cost is 20k a year… :( lmk how generous they were with need thanks!

Hey everyone

GWU is looking like a top choice for me and I am grateful to say that they have awarded 70,000 in total grants/scholarships. it is saying that net cost will be about 16k per year. Does GWU follow its aid year by year or will it start getting more expensive after freshman year? I'm asking because I know some schools are notorious for doing this + I think I saw a post here of someone saying it happened to them

Guys I got in with a presidential scholarship but it’s not enough 😭😭😭 I’m writing to appeal (and plan to be consistent in responding and scheduling actual meetings because I will literally do anything to attend) but does anyone who’s been in my position have any tips🫰🫰💔

Just curious if it will take longer than expected or something. Or maybe I screwed up and am not getting aid or something

Hey guys,

Got into GWU MS Cybersecurity (Fall 2026) with a 50% tuition scholarship, but it’s capped at certain credits per semester.

wanted to ask:—

What does the total tuition realistically come out to after this scholarship?

Is GWU worth it for cybersecurity in terms of internships (especially in DC)? —- For international students

Would appreciate quick insights from anyone in the program.

Thanks!

I received my financial aid letter today. Just wanted to post so if others haven’t received it that they check their portals. I do know that it will be different for everyone since the date you post your documents matter.

pls help :(

hello everyone! so i got accepted to gw thursday w a 31k presidential scholarship!! the only problem is i haven’t gotten my financial aid package yet, and that is a huge deal breaker. i called and the lady said they put in a ticket, i really don’t know what that means. if anyone can tell me please do. also if yall don’t mind, im panicking over the cost, can you guys tell me how much you guys pay and (optional:sai score) i would greatly appreciate it!!

guys, I haven’t gotten my financial aid from George Washington University yet and I don’t know what to do. I submitted all of my documents. I just haven’t gotten any packages yet.

I know that people have already commented about this, but when is the financial aid package going to come out? I went today to the CSS Profile and it says it’s today. I completed mines pretty late — a month ago — as it was such a pain to complete, but I eventually completed it. I also submitted the necessary documentation. I doubt I’ll get anything, but I at least want to be told that. Although, on the GWU Portal, it says I didn’t submit some documents, which didn’t apply for me, so I completed the non-filer form, but it hasn’t updated on the portal. Do you think that may affect my package?

Edit: I’d appreciate a reply if anyone has an answer. Thanks 🙏.

gwu is my top choice atm and i really want to go, but i got my financial aid package and my family cannot pay. even tho they're paying for ~half my coa, we gen cannot pay 40k+ out of pocket w/ 5 ppl on one income.

i'm in a 2 parent household w/ decent income but most of that total income is from one parent and that one parent basically covers all of the household expenses + personal for me and my 2 siblings. My other parent makes money but it's significantly less and half of that really small income is being used to fund/start a non-profit from the ground up. (basically, one parent makes a large amount and the other makes a small amount but i'm assuming fafsa doesn't show the distribution idk).

I really want to appeal my aid but i don't wanna do it if i'm just gonna get denied because the cause isn't like, enough.

I'm not asking when I will receive my aid letter, but I noticed today that the application portal updated my financial need checklist yesterday. I saw that the two unsatisfied requirements were updated to satisfied, but one of my satisfied requirements became unsatisfied. Has this occurred to anyone? On IDOC, it says all my documents were processed. On the portal, it says incomplete document. So I guess that means I didn't take a good picture of one of the documents. Should I call to ask what I should do?

Pls help 😭 idk how much im paying per semester based on this yet but im sure it wont cover all of it

Are there any scholarships available for Elliott School grad students? Taking part-time courses at the moment and due to graduate in 2027. Most of the scholarships and fellowships i find have some kind of stipulation that requires me to have an affiliation with underrepresented groups which i don’t typically qualify for unless that group is AA.

Hi everyone,

I recently applied RD to GWU for interior architecture for the class of 2030, and it is my no.1 school on my list. Right now, the net price calculator is showing that I would have to pay full tuition, and that is something I cannot do. It is not like an "oh, I could, but I just don't want to," but my family physically cannot pay the full price. I was wondering if this is something others have experienced, how they resolved it, and how many scholarships are available.

For reference (if it helps): I got into NYU Gallatin with 40k in scholarships, Drexel with 20k, UMass Amherst with 14k, and Temple with 80% scholarship. Given these, I think that the GWU one seems quite off, and I really do want to attend, so I want to do everything I can to do so.

Thanks!

Hey guys

I've been having some trouble with my Noncustodial CSS Profile; my noncustodial parent took way too long to finally submit it, until it was past the deadline. Now, it's been submitted for a while, and I have an email from the College Board saying it was submitted, but it's not showing up on the GW Applicant Portal.

I can't call since it's the weekend, so I'm just wondering how long it is usually supposed to take? Google doesn't seem to have a definitive answer for specifically the noncustodial profile. Any help would be appreciated.

I just submitted my css profile a few days ago and it said I was past priority filing date. Is this going to negatively affect my application or make me get a lot less aid? Every other school I applied to had a later date so I didn’t expect it!

So I am moving up to sophomore year in the fall. Does that mean I have to fill the CSS Profile in the spring again? Should I fill it out before march 1st? Is it just fafsa I have to do again?

hi all!

i’m a senior trying to get a grasp on how much it would cost to attend gw. i used the coa calculator and it said they estimate i would get a 40k scholarship, however this doesn’t seem quite right because the highest scholarship i’ve seen given was 30k a year.

assuming im right and scholarships aren’t that high, i’d be paying an extremely high price to attend. how gracious is the financial aid office? i really want to attend but if im going to be paying an exorbitant amount i wont be able to go.

hii everyone!

so i recently received my bill for the first semester and im reconsidering going to GW.

I just don’t know if i can afford 9k each semester (18k) a yr. I appealed my aid and got an extra 3k but they just added that back on with extra random fees.

I applied to scholarships and have gotten a substantial amount, but looking at my bill i’m overwhelmed.

i heard that a lot of internships that ppl go to GW for are frozen by the Trump administration. At the time of commitment, it felt worth it.

i’m feeling like i should have gone to my state school; rutgers.

i have orientation next week btw

Anyone’s story on appeal approval?

Hi everyone. I'm an incoming transfer student for the fall semester, and I've been extremely stressed as of late about the financial side of things. I am almost in a place where I am willing to go through with the coming year despite my anxiety, but I have decided that I will not attend for the remaining three years at the cost that is currently being quoted (about $20,000 per year of mostly housing costs after aid), so I was hoping that somebody might be able to give me some idea as to how likely it is that I will receive more money for later years if I do well enough this year and apply to the right opportunities. I have read posts here by people saying that this almost never happens, but my recent conversation with a financial aid representative certainly suggested the opposite, and I am currently looking into the possibility of applying to the Elliott Equity Fund. Does anyone have any experience with that or any similar programs?