| Well, going back to a list I saw online,
1 Harvard University (MA)
2 Princeton University (NJ)
3 Yale University (CT)
4 California Institute of Technology
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 Stanford University (CA)
7 Dartmouth College (NH)
8 Columbia University (NY)
9 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill *
10 Duke University (NC)
11 Vanderbilt University (TN)
12 University of Chicago
13 Rice University (TX)
14 University of Pennsylvania
15 Brown University (RI)
16 University of Virginia *
17 Emory University (GA)
18 Washington University in St. Louis
19 Cornell University (NY)
20 University of Notre Dame (IN)
21 Northwestern University (IL)
22 Case Western Reserve University (OH)
23 Texas A and M University--College Station *
24 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)
25 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
can we count on all these colleges meeting the full financial need of an admitted student? In other words, this year, in the real world, does a family with an EFC of X have to pay X + $5000 or 2(X) or even X + $20000 just to attend a college on this list? If you have an offer from one of those colleges that "gaps" you substantially, it would help to know that the specific case can be like that even though the college is on a list of colleges with good financial aid.
Best wishes to all of you figuring out which set of trade-offs makes sense this year among the offers you have received from various colleges. |