Scholarships in the humanities

Alqbamine32
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:33:10 +0000

AustenNut:

I wasn’t around for your kid’s thread, but I don’t think anyone on CC here is saying that OP is likely to get shut out. I suspect that one difference between OP’s situation and your son’s is that I believe your family had/has the finances to be full-pay at any institution. OP’s family can contribute $15k/year. Additionally, OP is getting some surprisingly varied NPC results.

The net price calculator results also seem very wonky to me. It seems highly unlikely that the result from Bowdoin’s NPC is accurate. Of course, every family’s circumstances is different, and Bowdoin is definitely quite generous with financial aid (as is Princeton ordinarily). I am not shocked that Bowdoin came out lower than Brown based on my experience with those calculators, but the discrepancy between the two is somewhat bigger than I’d expect. And the discrepancy between Bowdoin and Princeton is even stranger.

To be honest, I think that something is off if Princeton’s NPC is estimating a net price that is more than 2.5x that of Bowdoin. Such a result makes me suspect that the OP’s parental finances are more complicated than typical and/or there are assets or income that were captured by the Princeton and Brown NPC but for some reason didn’t get captured by Bowdoin’s NPC. Or perhaps the OP used the quick MyTuition calculator on Bowdoin’s instead of the full net price calculator. Or there was an entry error at one of the schools. If so, the correct information will come out when the family fills out the CSS. The good news is that all three colleges are no loan schools so any aid should be all grants. Unfortunately, as many posters have pointed out, they are all very high reaches for all students so a financial safety is crucial if the parent’s budget is really 15K.