<p>"% of undergrads receiving need-based scholarship or grant aid:</p>
<p>Harvard 60.0%
Princeton 59.4%
Yale 56.0%</p>
<p>As already noted, much of the aid in the need-based category is not need-based at all. It’s made-up “need” that is part of the fiction they promote when they provide what is essentially a “merit-based” (or poundage-based - that has its own merit) discount. It has no relationship to the federal EFC calculators, nor to any rational measure of what parents are “prepared” to afford. It’s just a story they want you to believe.</p>