Schools That Say They Meet Full Need
One way that students can increase their chances of getting financial aid is to apply to schools that tend to be more generous. This is a list of schools that say they meet the full need of the students they admit.
But students should beware: The schools have varying definitions of " need. " Some of the schools provide enough grants to make up the difference between the family's federal " expected family contribution " and the school's cost of attendance. Others calculate their own (often higher) EFC and still leave a gap of several thousand dollars to be covered by student loans and part-time jobs.
In some cases, these gaps are larger than the $6,500 or so counselors say most freshmen can reasonably handle with federal Stafford loans and a combination of school-year part-time work and summer full-time jobs.
So while this list is a good start, students may find that other schools could end up leaving them with smaller tuition bills.
| College Name | State |
|---|---|
| Adrian College | (MI) |
| Amherst College | (MA) |
| Barnard College | (NY) |
| Bates College | (ME) |
| Beloit College | (WI) |
| Boston College | |
| Bowdoin College | (ME) |
| Brown University | (RI) |
| Bryn Mawr College | (PA) |
| California Institute of Technology | |
| Carleton College | (MN) |
| Carroll College | (WI) |
| Chapman University | (CA) |
| Claremont McKenna College | (CA) |
| Colby College | (ME) |
| Colgate University | (NY) |
| College of the Holy Cross | (MA) |
| Columbia University | (NY) |
| Connecticut College | |
| Cornell University | (NY) |
| Dartmouth College | (NH) |
| Davidson College | (NC) |
| Duke University | (NC) |
| Emory University | (GA) |
| Franklin & Marshall | |
| Georgetown University | (DC) |
| Gettysburg College | (PA) |
| Grinnell College | (IA) |
| Hamilton College | (NY) |
| Harvard University | (MA) |
| Harvey Mudd College | (CA) |
| Haverford College | (PA) |
| Lafayette College | (PA) |
| Macalester College | (MN) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Middlebury College | (VT) |
| Mount Holyoke College | (MA) |
| Northwestern University | (IL) |
| Oberlin College | (OH) |
| Occidental College | (CA) |
| Pitzer College | (CA) |
| Pomona College | (CA) |
| Princeton University | (NJ) |
| Reed College | (OR) |
| Rice University | (TX) |
| Salem College | (NC) |
| Scripps College | (CA) |
| Smith College | (MA) |
| St. Olaf College | (MN) |
| Stanford University | (CA) |
| SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | |
| Swarthmore College | (PA) |
| Tufts University | (MA) |
| University of Chicago | |
| University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill | |
| University of Pennsylvania | |
| University of Richmond | (VA) |
| University of Virginia | |
| Vassar College | (NY) |
| Wellesley College | (MA) |
| Wesleyan University | (CT) |
| Williams College | (MA) |
| Yale University | (CT) |
Reader Comments
"Meet your need?" Hardly!
Our daughter was ecstatic when she got into Smith College. We assumed the school would honor their promise on their website, to award scholarships and aid to Phi Theta Kappa students, which our daughter was. Instead, the fin aid counselor told us we would get virtually nothing -- not because of our income, but because out house, according to Smith, was worth so much! -- and he advised us to take out equity on our home, and even to sell our home, to finance the $52,000 tuition. This, despite the fact that the officer himself admitted he understood that with our low income we would never be able to pay back such a huge loan.
What Smith calls "meeting a need" is obviously an attempt to lure as many applicants as possible, and then to eliminate those who aren't wealthy enough to meet full tuition.
It is certainly a curious scam, to encourage low-income parents to ruin themselves over college tuition.
International Students
Does this 100% need apply also for international students? I mean, do these universities meet full need of internationals students too?
An Application for Admission.
FOPA DOUANLA WILLY CHRISTIAN
P.O.Box 1058 Mankon
North West Province
Bamenda 237 Cameroon
19/06/2009
The Office of admission
Gentle people,
This must be the greatest opportunity for me to be honoured as I express to you my profound gratitude for the good job that you undertake on the behalf the the US Government and the entire world community.
My name is Fopa Douanla Willy Christian, I am a young Cameroonian of age 19, and also a student in the Government Bilingual high school Bamenda .I would like to write my Advanced level inin Physics in your school . Sir, this mail to your institution is also to request the brochure for application or the student's manual if there is any. I downloaded and printed those I found in your website but my father never took them as real because when one of our relatives applied into Pomona College, he was sent a brochure like that so my father thinks that the brochure makes the thing more real. If there is none, please do send me at least the forms for admission and the list of all the documents that I will have to provide in other to have my admission complete.
I shall be extremely happy if this process could go very fast , such a way that I could obtain my F-1 type Visa as early as September in other to start shool there in October. I look forward to hearing from you soon , mostly as per your conveniant. Please, do accept my warmest regard and above all, I wish you God's protection.
Sincerely yours , Fopa Douanla Willy Christian
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