UVA Class of 2013 Forum

[vanwinkle]

Ok guys, I got bone to pick with Kevin Donovan. Apparently he replied to the Law Weekly article on a password protected blog and apparently students got the username and password emailed to them. At least this blog told me so...http://www.uvalawblog.com/. Why can't I see it? I just dropped a G to hold my seat and am about to take out a butt load of loans...aren't I entitled to see his retort? Aren't such rebuttals supposed to clear the air or make a public correction? How does that work when the public can't see it. I haz sad now...

Expect a PM shortly which will calm you down (hopefully).

[dgouzoul]

can i have a PM too if i ask nicely? prty plz

[slider]

can i have a PM too if i ask nicely? prty plz

Oh me too me too!! Pretty Please

[jnorsky]

can i have a PM too if i ask nicely? prty plz

Oh me too me too!! Pretty Please

Can I get one as well, Thanks

[avacado111]

I am on the please parade...

but please

[oneforship]

I am on the please parade...

but please

sure...why not? me too?

[HJO]

can we just have it posted in the thread?

[D Brooks]

can we just have it posted in the thread?

[vanwinkle]

I'm sorry guys, I think there's a misunderstanding. I'm not sharing an entire article posted on a locked site with everybody. I don't want to get myself in trouble.

It's mostly just "yes, the job market is bad, but here's something you can do to greatly increase your chances of finding work this summer". It's a rather mundane article actually; why it's posted behind lock and key, I'm not sure. I think it's just because the entire blog is designed to be locked.

[thatguyyouknow]

If we've been accepted, can we activate our email accounts and take a look at the article? Anyone know how to do this?

[YCrevolution]

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[thatguyyouknow]

If we've been accepted, can we activate our email accounts and take a look at the article? Anyone know how to do this?

You'd have to contact Career Services for login credentials.

gotcha, thanks! I'll probably just enjoy the fact that I got into UVA in the first place instead of bothering the people Career Services before I even get to the school.

[Lady LaLa]

This is a bit off topic, but relates to some of the posts from a few days back.......

I completed my FAFSA and the UVA Institutional FinAid form on Sunday. According to FAFSA, I am an independent and did not have to include data on my parents' finances. I included their info. on the UVA Institutional form, but it was just limited to cash and stocks, basically (they form did not ask for my parents' income.) After reading some of the posts on TSL, I was made aware that I would have to include my parents' financials on my FAFSA to be considered for need-based aid via UVA. The problem is that my parents are not supporting me in law school at all. It's all on me. I'm worried that if I edit my FAFSA, which says I don't need to include my parents' finances, just to get need-based aid from UVA, I will hurt my overall aid package because it will look like I have more money available to me than I actually do (especially because of my father's salary).

What should I do? If I don't include the info. on the FAFSA, which I am not required to include, I hurt my chances of need-based aid from UVA, but if I do include the info. I hurt my chances for federal, as well as institutional, money. Any suggestions/advice?

[vanwinkle]

This is a bit off topic, but relates to some of the posts from a few days back.......

I completed my FAFSA and the UVA Institutional FinAid form on Sunday. According to FAFSA, I am an independent and did not have to include data on my parents' finances. I included their info. on the UVA Institutional form, but it was just limited to cash and stocks, basically (they form did not ask for my parents' income.) After reading some of the posts on TSL, I was made aware that I would have to include my parents' financials on my FAFSA to be considered for need-based aid via UVA. The problem is that my parents are not supporting me in law school at all. It's all on me. I'm worried that if I edit my FAFSA, which says I don't need to include my parents' finances, just to get need-based aid from UVA, I will hurt my overall aid package because it will look like I have more money available to me than I actually do (especially because of my father's salary).

What should I do? If I don't include the info. on the FAFSA, which I am not required to include, I hurt my chances of need-based aid from UVA, but if I do include the info. I hurt my chances for federal, as well as institutional, money. Any suggestions/advice?

Contact the financial aid office, ask them directly whether you need to include FAFSA info on your parents, and then if they tell you that you do, do it.

You'll hurt your aid package more by not following the financial aid office's guidance than you will by including money you don't want to on it.

[FeuerFrei]

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[Doritos]

This is a bit off topic, but relates to some of the posts from a few days back.......

I completed my FAFSA and the UVA Institutional FinAid form on Sunday. According to FAFSA, I am an independent and did not have to include data on my parents' finances. I included their info. on the UVA Institutional form, but it was just limited to cash and stocks, basically (they form did not ask for my parents' income.) After reading some of the posts on TSL, I was made aware that I would have to include my parents' financials on my FAFSA to be considered for need-based aid via UVA. The problem is that my parents are not supporting me in law school at all. It's all on me. I'm worried that if I edit my FAFSA, which says I don't need to include my parents' finances, just to get need-based aid from UVA, I will hurt my overall aid package because it will look like I have more money available to me than I actually do (especially because of my father's salary).

What should I do? If I don't include the info. on the FAFSA, which I am not required to include, I hurt my chances of need-based aid from UVA, but if I do include the info. I hurt my chances for federal, as well as institutional, money. Any suggestions/advice?

From the UVA Website "Beginning with the Class of 2013, entering students who are unmarried and 26 or younger when they enroll in the Law School are required to provide parental financial aid information on both the FAFSA and the Institutional Application for Financial Aid to be considered for scholarship assistance with a need factor. This requirement, however, may be waived in cases of extreme hardship. Please contact the Office of Financial Aid for additional waiver information."

I'd include your parents info, otherwise you're going to get $0.

edit: $0 in scholarships, you'll obv still get loans

This is why I lurk on these forums. Information such as this. Thank you my UVa friend. Off to edit my FAFSA...

[whattodo2008]

This is a bit off topic, but relates to some of the posts from a few days back.......

I completed my FAFSA and the UVA Institutional FinAid form on Sunday. According to FAFSA, I am an independent and did not have to include data on my parents' finances. I included their info. on the UVA Institutional form, but it was just limited to cash and stocks, basically (they form did not ask for my parents' income.) After reading some of the posts on TSL, I was made aware that I would have to include my parents' financials on my FAFSA to be considered for need-based aid via UVA. The problem is that my parents are not supporting me in law school at all. It's all on me. I'm worried that if I edit my FAFSA, which says I don't need to include my parents' finances, just to get need-based aid from UVA, I will hurt my overall aid package because it will look like I have more money available to me than I actually do (especially because of my father's salary).

What should I do? If I don't include the info. on the FAFSA, which I am not required to include, I hurt my chances of need-based aid from UVA, but if I do include the info. I hurt my chances for federal, as well as institutional, money. Any suggestions/advice?

From the UVA Website "Beginning with the Class of 2013, entering students who are unmarried and 26 or younger when they enroll in the Law School are required to provide parental financial aid information on both the FAFSA and the Institutional Application for Financial Aid to be considered for scholarship assistance with a need factor. This requirement, however, may be waived in cases of extreme hardship. Please contact the Office of Financial Aid for additional waiver information."

I'd include your parents info, otherwise you're going to get $0.

edit: $0 in scholarships, you'll obv still get loans

This is why I lurk on these forums. Information such as this. Thank you my UVa friend. Off to edit my FAFSA...

Second that. I didn't have my parents info in the FAFSA. Time to ask them how much $ they made last year!

[dgouzoul]

is it safe to say that if you know damn well you wont get need based $ that you dont need to edit your fafsa for parents info? (parent info is completed on uva's form)

[Lady LaLa]

That's my quandry, Dgouzoul. If I leave the parental info. blank on the FAFSA, since I can because I'm defined as an "independent," will I still get need-based aid from the government via grants, etc? If so, I'm better off leaving my parents' info. out of the FAFSA, right?

[YCrevolution]

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[whattodo2008]

hmm, my parents made around 100k combined last year, own a house on a mortgage. I'm guessing this disqualifies me for "need-based" right? I know they look at more things, but I think income is probably a big one. I'm just not sure how law schools measure need, seeing that tuition is much higher than in undergrad. Any input?

[D Brooks]

hmm, my parents made around 100k combined last year, own a house on a mortgage. I'm guessing this disqualifies me for "need-based" right? I know they look at more things, but I think income is probably a big one. I'm just not sure how law schools measure need, seeing that tuition is much higher than in undergrad. Any input?

Not necessarily. My parents combined income is significantly higher than the highest IRS tax bracket and I still expect to get some need-based aid. I have three sisters though, two of which begin dental/med school this summer.

[Doritos]

FYI guys its not as easy as editing your FAFSA form. The FinAid office told me I had to fill out the parental section on a Pre-Application Form and send that ish in. So I was told to fill out the extra form as well as edit my FAFSA

[oneforship]

FYI guys its not as easy as editing your FAFSA form. The FinAid office told me I had to fill out the parental section on a Pre-Application Form and send that ish in. So I was told to fill out the extra form as well as edit my FAFSA

What is a Pre-Application form, and why is it not listed under "Forms" on their finaid website?

[Doritos]

FYI guys its not as easy as editing your FAFSA form. The FinAid office told me I had to fill out the parental section on a Pre-Application Form and send that ish in. So I was told to fill out the extra form as well as edit my FAFSA

What is a Pre-Application form, and why is it not listed under "Forms" on their finaid website?

It's this form...http://www.law.virginia.edu/pdf/admissi ... d_1011.pdf

They wanted me to fill out the parental section of it