Colleges That Claim to Meet the Full Financial Needs of Students

I too do not believe Boston College should be on this list. As a counselor I have always questioned the packages I see from BC. This year while working with a Questbridge scholar with an EFC of 0 who received financial aid packages from full ride plus $2,000 to no more than $7,000 in loans from12 colleges, only BC questioned her EFC and refused to send a financial aid package. They didn't contact the family, but merely sent the acceptance without a package! When we questioned them we were told only a single officer in financial aid could decide and she refused to listen to the students mother. The saddest part of the story is that the EFC was so low because of a well documented family tragedy ( one of the reasons she had been selected by Questbridge). As a catholic single parent, BC had been their goal. I contacted colleagues during this incident only to be toldof similar situations with BC. This student is actually now attending a far higher ranked school with a full ride, although BC was her first choice. The behavior of this supposedly faith based institution towards this family was shocking and clearly questionable. Again , only BC of the 12 schools on her list questioned the family finances even with tax forms, the profile, FAFSA, repeated phone calls from the mother and the school. Only BC of all the schools I had students accepted to last year behaved this way.

Sharon S of CA 2:20AM September 16, 2011