Ivy rankings for Fin Aid

camathmom
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:32:54 +0000

If you need financial aid, I do not recommend applying ED. You really need to be able to compare FA offers.

With respect to your question though, I can tell you that my D was accepted RD at Brown, Columbia, Penn and Cornell. Columbia and Penn were the most generous with FA, but when asked, both Cornell and Brown matched the Columbia/Penn FA packages. Before matching, the Brown package was about half of the Columbia/Penn package, and the Cornell package was a little bit more than that. I did not know this before my D applied, but apparently most schools will match peer school FA packages.

Good luck!