High school class of 2016

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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@letmeseetheworld

The Best Of the Best: 100% Need Met Without Loans, Regardless Of Income:

Amherst College

Bowdoin College

Claremont McKenna College

Colby College

Columbia University

Davidson College

Harvard University

Haverford College

Pomona College

Princeton University

Swarthmore College

Stanford University

University of Chicago

University of Pennsylvania

Vanderbilt University

Washington and Lee University

Yale University

Second Best: 100% Of Need Met With No Loans For Some Incomes:

Brown University

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $60,000 with assets less than $100,000. Your family will not be expected to make any financial contribution.

Connecticut College

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $50,000.

Cornell University

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $75,000.

Dartmouth College

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $100,000. Your family will not be expected to make any financial contribution.

Duke University

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $60,000. Your family will not be expected to make any financial contribution.

LeHigh University

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $50,000.

If your family earns between $75,000 and $150,000, your loans will be limited to $2,000 per year.

MIT

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $75,000.

Northwestern University

Aid is loan-free if you are a Pell Grant Recipient.

Rice University

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $80,000.

Vassar College

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $60,000.

University of Virginia

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than 200% of the poverty line and have assets less than $75,000.

Washington University in St. Louis

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $75,000.

Wellesley College

Aid is loan-free if your parents earn less than $40,000. Your family will not be expected to make any financial contribution.

100% Of Need With Loans

Barnard College
Bates College
Berea College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Emory University
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin W. Olin College
Georgetown University
Gettysburg College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvey Mudd College
Kenyon College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Pitzer College
Reed College
Scripps College
Smith College
St. Olaf College
Thomas Aquinas College
Trinity College
Tufts University
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of Southern California
Wesleyan University
Williams College

There you go! :smiley: I could have easily just posted the link… But I had fun copying and pasting, lmaoo.

P.S. Wake Forest University should be in one of those categories because it does meet 100% of demonstrated need.

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@LegendarySims wait… give need aid regardless of incomes? I know for sure that Stanford and Harvard will only give full need based below a certain income…

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@chubii The website is most likely not 100% accurate, but pretty close. Either way, @letmeseetheworld can just google colleges and universities that meet 100% of demonstrated need and a lot of websites with slightly different lists will pop up. :slight_smile: Best way to know 100% is to give the school a call.

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http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2015/09/14/colleges-that-report-meeting-full-financial-need

I’ve always just looked at this list, it seems pretty accurate.

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@chubii, the key language is “meets 100% of NEED”. Colleges are still perfectly free to declare that families above a certain income level have zero need, and therefore don’t get any aid, and even the Stanford’s and Princeton’s of the world do that above about $180K or so, I believe.

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@rayrick
Yeah I see what you mean, but at least Stanford definitely decides need based on income… and it’s below 125,000 not 180,000 for tuition only…
<65k for all costs

http://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/how/parent.html

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“100% need met” doesn’t always mean full ride right?

16908

Submitted all my documents to Ball State today :slight_smile:

16909

My school had a three hour lockdown today (again). This one was real, though. Someone decided to call a shooting/bomb threat to ten local high schools.

Kinda depressing we can’t even feel safe at school anymore…

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Does anyone know what the actual heck AB and BC stand for in AP Calculus? No one seems to know.

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tfw you fail your first 2 tests this semester

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@LordBendtner SAME

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Midterms week. Thank god my school counts midterms as 10% of our semester grade. I really don’t bother studying that much tbh.

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@gearsstudio A=precalc review, B=Calc 1, C=Calc 2, sort of.

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@Ngzk07 I have never studied for an exam because of the same reason. As long as I have a 95% before the exam and I’m sure that I will at least get a 60%, I won’t even bother studying.

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Lol, midterms are 2% for me.

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Thank god I’m done with AP Chem–the only class in my school that has a midterm.

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@newjerseygirl98 that’s scary! When I was in 8th grade(the middle school/high are attached) there was an armed robbery at the bank across from the school and the guy then ran onto school property and stole a car. So there was a lockdown. The 8th grade was on our way to DC for the 8th grade trip but it was still terrifying to hear about- anxiously awaiting the news. And in 9th grade there was a bomb threat on 12/20/12 so we had a lockdown for almost 2 hours. And this year we had a lockdown for nearly an hour since the police had to arrest people on drug and porn charges.

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Did anyone else apply for the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award back in November? I didn’t win the national award, but I just got notified that I’m a 2016 North Central Florida Affiliate winner. My principal said they give a scholarship for Embry-Riddle, which I didn’t apply to. But I’m getting an award, and there’ll be a ceremony in April, so I’m pretty psyched. Nice to finally get a positive email notification from somewhere.

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@readingclaygirl The same thing happened at my school on 12/20/12! It was really scary because people had been talking about a bomb threat for a day or two before that day, so a ton of people ended up not going to school (including me) though nothing ended up happening. I heard they had tons of police there though.