Assuming need-blind, how much can colleges give financial aid to student with over $73,000 income? I have two older brothers, both college students. I might have over 3.7 gpa, most rigorous school in South Korea, have US citizenship, might have 5 APs (probably all five, I hope), and not-bad ECs.
Oh, also, I am considering Oberlin, Barnard, NYU, Case Reserve, University of Washington…
Run the net price calculator on each college website for an estimate. Realize that as the other students graduate your cost may go up considerably. Run scenarios for that to be sure you can afford all 4years on ‘need based’ aid. Otherwise you may need to look for merit aid.
If you mean UW the public in Seattle, expect to be full pay, no aid if you are OOS. nYU is not known for good aid, it will cost a lot. Do you understand that not all colleges give aid? Overlain and Barnard may.
Oberlin and Barnard are likely to be the cheapest.
73k with 3 in college would make you eligible for a lot of financial aid from universities that offer it.
UWashington Seattle would not offer any aid. NYU is notoriously stingy.
Case Western has been known to give excellent merit aid to applicants they’re interested in, but they may not offer enough to meet your need.
If you like the Pacific Northwest, look into Whitman and Willamette. If you like politically involved, look into Macalester, Smith, Agnes Scott.
Need blind simply means that the college doesn’t look at your ability to pay when considering the admission application. That has no bearing on financial aid…at all.
Are you asking about schools that guarantee to meet full need?
NYU, Case and University of Washington do not guarantee to meet full need. Are you instate for UW?
The others meet full need for all. But the awards you get could vary by thousands of dollars.
Agree…run the net orice calculators. But if the parents are divorced, own a business, are self employed, have real estate other than their primary residence…the NPC likely won’t be all that accurate.
As an OOS US citizen, you might be eligible for a Purple and Gold Scholarship from UW. Website states:
“All admitted U.S. students are automatically considered for this four-year scholarship. For autumn 2014, scholarship amounts range from $4,000 to $9,000 per year ($16,000 to $36,000 over four years) and were awarded to about one half of U.S. students who are not residents of Washington State.”
OOS tuition is around $33,000, and total cost is around $45,000. A $4,000 to $9,000 per year merit scholarship definitely helps.
Yes it would! Do you know how many of those they hand out a year?
Michelin…what is your ACT or SAT score? Did you apply to any schools where merit aid would be possible? Are your siblings older than you? How are their college costs being covered? Are there two of them in college now? What does their need based aid look like?
Most important…what CAN your parents contribute annually to your college costs? That is an I oortant question you need to have answered.
BrownParent, the scholarship was reportedly awarded to about half of the US nonresidents. If we start with 36,528 applicants this year, of which 26,250 are nonresident, I estimate around 18,000 are US nonresidents. Based on the 19% increase in nonresident applications this year, I expect the admissions rate for US nonresidents to be around 45% (give or take), and so around 8,100 admissions and around 4,050 offered a scholarship. UW’s yield is about 40% overall. I’m not sure what it is for US nonresidents specifically, but perhaps around 1,600 freshman will enroll in 2015 with a scholarship.
Sorry, I should have said 25,250 nonresident applicants.
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You can’t go by those numbers. Only 15% of UWs frosh are from OOS. And some of those are int’ls and don’t qualify.
Even if half of the domestic OOS were awarded the scholarship, that would not include who applied. It would be to half who were accepted. And, likely it would be to the high stats accepted students.
It is about 2/3 instate, 1/3 OOS.
I referred specifically to US nonresidents who enroll. After taking a closer look at yields, I estimate the number of freshmen who enrolled with this merit scholarship in 2014 was somewhere around 1,400 to 1,500.
Correction: After looking at yields and size of the 2014 class, it’s probably 900 to 1000 scholarships. I thought the class was around 8,000, but it is closer to 6,500.
Where are you seeing that UWash is 1/3 OOS. I’m seeing only 15% and some of those would be athletes with athletic awards.
The chances that you’ll get an award will depend on your M+CR SAT…what is it?
These two articles (one from 2013, the other from 2015) mention the 2/3 instate enrollment.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021045617_collegeadmissionsxml.html
Fall 2013 freshman class of 6,255 had 4,211 Washington residents.
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/14/uw-fall-2013-enrollment-largest-freshman-class-ever/
So that is 2000 OOS students…and UW…you are saying that half of them received this scholarship?
It’s hard to tell from the information on the website.
https://admit.washington.edu/Paying/PurpleGold
Presumably, the yield for students offered a scholarship would be higher than for those who were not, but as mom noted, these are the top OOS applicants, and top applicants at every school have more enrollment options.
I have searched high and low, but I have not yet found the exact number. In any case, it benefits hundreds of students in each class, which is pretty good (and unique?) for a merit scholarship at a public university.