Please chance me for engineering, good stats but not the greatest courseload

[AustenNut]

@DadBodThor

Definitely run the Net Price Calculator for every school. Not every school will try to meet need and what they think is need is probably different than what you or your parents think is need.

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As an example, I’m going to quote a post I did earlier today that helps to show this point:

@AustenNut

Just for posterity, I wanted to post this information so people can see how important it can be to run net price calculators and not just look at what percentage of need a school meets. A school calculates what a student needs, and some schools are more generous in defining that need than others.

For instance, Occidental meets 100% of need, yet the net price for families earning less than $30k is more than $4k higher than at U. of Puget Sound, which indicates that it meets 88% of need and about $3500 higher than at U. of the Pacific, which indicates that it meets an average of 71% of need. Pepperdine says it meets 76% of need, but it costs nearly 3x as much as U. of Puget Sound.

OP, I posted this on your thread because this was research I was doing to see which options might be best for you from a financial perspective.

• Loyola Marymount (CA): on average meets 70% of need; net price of $28,383 for $0-30k and $22,329 for $30-48.
• Occidental (CA): on average meets 100% of need; net price of $13,983 for $0-30k and $13,285 for $30-48k, and $14,770 for $48-75k.
• Pepperdine (CA): on average meets 76% of need; net price of $28,304 for $0-30k and $26,285 for $30-48.
• Pitzer (CA): on average meets 100% of need; net price is $985 for $0-30k and $4,759 for $30-48k.
• Santa Clara (CA): on average meets 89% of need, net price of $23,618 for $0-30k and $27,708 for $30-48k
• Stanford (CA) – need-blind and meets 100% of need; net price is $0 for $0-75k
• U. of the Pacific (CA): on average meets 71% of need; net price of $10,439 for $0-30k and $13,200 for $30-48k.
• U. of Puget Sound (WA): on average meets 88% of need; net price of $9,749 for $0-30k and $12,232 for $30-48k.
• U. of Redlands (CA): on average meets 83% of need; net price of $13,981 for $0-30k and $12,984 for $30-48k.
• U. of San Francisco (CA): on average meets 71% of need; net price of $30,235 for $0-30k and $30,787 for $30-48k
• Whitman (WA): on average 94% of need met; net price of $14,774 for $0-30k and $18,861 for $30-48k.
• Whittier (CA): on average 82% of need met; net price of $14,301 for $0-30k and $13,280 for $30-48k.
• Willamette (OR): on average 75% of need met; net price of $25,081 for $0-30k and $24,078 for $30-48k.