Estimate Your Costs Worksheet
- Please use this worksheet as a guide to help you determine your estimated direct and indirect educational costs for the 2006-2007 academic year.
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Step 1: Estimate your Educational Costs
Please refer to CCC Cost of Attendance Budgets for an example of your costs.
Direct Educational Costs
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Yearly direct costs are costs you will be billed for by Columbia:
(please see Tuition and Fees for exact amounts)
| Tuition: |
$ |
| Fees: | + $ |
| On-campus Housing/Meal Plan (if applicable): | + $ |
| Estimated amount Columbia College Chicago will bill you: | = $____________(A) |
Indirect Educational Costs
- Yearly indirect costs are not directly billed by Columbia but are considered additional costs of attendance.
| Books and Supplies: | $ |
| Room and Board (for students living off-campus only. Do not include if you are commuting.): | + $ |
| Personal Expenses: | + $ |
| Transportation: | + $ |
| Estimated amount you will need for additional expenses: | = $____________(B) |
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Step 2: Review your Estimated Financial Aid Resources and Loans
Please refer to your awards by logging into your OASIS account to determine the items for which you are currently eligible. Be sure to include only the loans* for which you plan to apply.
| Grant Total (this includes Pell, ISAC, MAP, SEOG, IIA Grant): | $ |
| Scholarship Total (this includes Columbia or non-Columbia awards): | + $ |
| Federal Stafford Loan Total*: | + $ |
| PLUS Parent Loan Total* or Private Educational Loan:* | + $ |
| Add above amounts for your total financial aid and loans: | = $____________(C) |
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Step 3: Determine Your Estimated Amount Due to Columbia
| Estimated Direct Costs | $____________(A) |
| Estimated Financial Aid and Loans | - $____________(C) |
| Estimated amount due to Columbia/or Refunded to Student: | = $____________(D) ** |
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**Please note that if your balance on line D is a credit you will be issued a refund that you may use to cover your indirect costs. If your balance on line D is an amount due you may finance this amount through our Columbia Payment Plan. - Step 4: Determine if You Need to Borrow More for Additional Expenses
| Estimated Additional Expenses | $____________(B) |
| Estimated Due to Columbia/or Refunded | + $____________(D) |
| Equals how much you will need to finance your indirect costs: | = $____________E)*** |
- ***If you cannot finance these indirect costs out-of-pocket, you may increase the amount of loans you plan to borrow in Step 2. Please note that the loan amounts requested cannot exceed the amounts on your awards.
- Once you have completed this worksheet please proceed go to Checklist for Securing Your Finances to see what your next steps are in securing your finances for the upcoming year