Two questions: one about berkeley, another about private schools in general

Paying for College
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<p>Berkeley:</p>

<p>Does Berkeley give any aid to out-of-staters? (any parent has out-of-state student in a UC school?)</p>

<p>Private schools:</p>

<p>At schools like Stanford, Havard, etc, would they ever go over your demonstarted financial aid and cover part of your EFC? (if they want you badly enough would that do it ? - would that be anybody other than athletes or siemens winners?)</p>

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<p>I think UC Berkeley give aid to foreigners. One of my friends used to study in there with aid.</p>

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<p>Here is from their website: <a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/Prospective/kindsofawards.htm#grants[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/fao/Prospective/kindsofawards.htm#grants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>They don’t specifically say anything about aid to OOS, but as it is a state school it will likely be limited. There are specific grants for CA residents only. I wouldn’t count on a generous aid package as on OOS student. </p>

<p>Schools like Harvard guarantee to meet 100% of your demonstrated need. They do not offer merit awards, which is basically what you are talking about. They can offer varying degrees of packages (more grants as opposed to loans) but they won’t take on more than your demonstrated need.</p>