I'm not sure how other schools financial aid offices work but this school has the worst issues. Financial aid tells keeps requiring more paperwork even after they say "you should be all good!" You'll have to set up a payment plan otherwise they'll drop you within a few days. Classes start and still no aid. You probably won't receive it till a month after classes start and then it's too late to drop a class, therefore pay for it out of pocket which is bs. The front desk people are impossible to work with and extremely rude. You constantly get the run around. It's almost worth the 50k to go private.