Any of these colleges have early deadlines for merit consideration/financial?

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<p>Do any of these colleges have early deadlines for merit consideration/need-based aid? I tried researching but couldn't find anything, which could mean that they don't have any earlier deadline.</p>

<p>USC- I know merit consideration is 12/1, just wanted to confirm
NYU
UChicago
Northwestern
Stanford
Boston University
UT Austin
UPenn
Columbia</p>

<p>Thanks for reading</p>

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<p>I don’t know about the majority of these, however Northwestern has no truly merit based aid. It’s all need, or departmental little scholarships, which I believe are included in the Fin Aid package for anyone who qualifies.</p>

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<p>Thanks and for Northwestern, does making a little over a 100k put you out of reach of some fiancial aid? Not sure how much I could get from any of these private school.</p>

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<p>At a little over 100K (and don’t take this as fact, because I haven’t researched that income bracket, and am still in high school) I’d say you’d get some, but it probably would be at least, less than half the cost of attendance.</p>

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<p>Run the net price calculator for Northwestern:
<a href=“Net Price Calculator”>Net Price Calculator;
UPenn, Columbia, Stanford I believe only offer need-based aid. Not sure of the others though I know BU does have merit aid.</p>

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<p>I don’t find that calculator to be very accurate. It’s based more on FAFSA info, it doesn’t have all of the other strange things that can happen that CSS includes. It says our family should be contributing 17,000 a year and my dad just got a job (60,000-ish) after 4 years of unemployment and my mom has major medical expenses (12,000-ish).</p>