Financial aid unlikely?

DadTwoGirls
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:21:33 +0000

It is going to depend upon where you are looking. Some small schools offer merit based aid, some do not.

We ran the NPC on Bowdoin, Colby, Wellesley College, and a few other similar schools in the Northeast and found that it predicted that we would be full pay at all (which is tough with an income of $150k). One daughter was offered merit based aid from Bennington College that would have brought the total cost of attendance down to $40k per year. I have heard that there are LACs in the south and midwest which give significant merit based aid.

We also found very good small universities in eastern Canada for which the total cost of attendance for an international student is about the same or slightly less than our in-state flagship public university (ie, a total cost of attendance in the low to mid 20’s in US dollars). Merit aid has brought the price down a bit from there.

Have you run the NPC on any LACs that you would want to consider?