Hamilton RD Class of 2020

BelknapPoint
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 23:34:43 +0000

Also, although I said that all the LACs my S got into were roughly the same, when I sat down to crunch the numbers the other night I saw that they were not. Colby gave the best aid – significantly better than Middlebury’s.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Hamilton provided the best financial aid package of any of the NESCACs that I crunched the numbers for - Middlebury, Williams and Colby included. This is likely because Hamilton does not consider primary home equity in their FA formula, while other NESCAC schools factor in home equity, some up to 100% (Williams).

So if you own a home and have substantial equity in it, you may find that Hamilton is able to provide very good aid as compared to the other NESCAC schools.