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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that work study jobs are not assigned/guaranteed and your child still needs to apply and interview for the position.  Also, I understand that schools might offer work study to more students than they have jobs available.  Plus, the parents still needs to front the money that the student is expected to make from work study.  Also, some jobs may not be desirable for a student - i.e. it might be a janitorial position that the student doesn't want.  So what is the benefit of work study?  How is it different from getting any "non-work study" job on campus?  The only positive thing that I heard about "work study" jobs is that they are on-campus jobs that seem to accommodate a student's schedule.  Any thoughts?  [/quote]

Some colleges don't offer work-study to high family income students so its not even an option.[/quote]

Work-study is a form of need based aid.  It's offered by the federal government who identifies students who qualify, and then gives money to the colleges so the college can employ those specific students.

Students who don't get work-study, because they have less need than tuition, either because their family has high income, or because merit aid covers their full need, have fewer jobs to choose from on campus. [/quote]

I wonder if they changed it. We have a HHI of 300K and my DD was offered work study at Syracuse (plus a student loan). [/quote]

Did you fill out FAFSA? What was your family contribution?

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We did fill out the FAFSA. Got nothing except loans my DD could take out - 5k ish or something like that[/quote]

Federal work-study is a federal financial aid program and sometimes students can flip work-study and loan awards. By that I mean that students who have been awarded loans can sometimes call and ask for part to be awarded as work-study and vice versa.

Schools have different philosophies regarding work study. For example, one of my kids attended a ‘no loan’ college - but they believed all students should work and contribute to their degree so they did award work study to kids on financial aid. Another one of my kids attended Univ of AZ — and back then, they awarded more work study than there were jobs and students in the know went early (hard for us to do out of state) to apply for jobs.

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