Colleges with middle-class financial aid similar to Harvard?

Paying for College
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<p>Does anyone have an exhaustive list of tier 1 schools that revised their financial aid packages for the middle class bracket like Harvard, Princeton, and Yale did a few years ago?</p>

<p>Did Columbia and UPenn also revise their policies?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>haven't heard of any.
While there are some schools that are free like Olin college of engineering, most schools will offer a combination of grants, work study and loans in their financial aid packages.</p>

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<p>Stanford also modified their financial aid policies.</p>

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<p>Columbia did revise the policies, I went to a seminar in my area and they discussed them in depth. They lowered the parent contribution significantly for incomes between 60,000 and 100,000 and expect no contribution for incomes under 60,000.</p>

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<p>well, all you need to do is to take a look of schools with huge endowment. </p>

<p>List</a> of U.S. colleges and universities by endowment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>

<p>Only those who have money like Harvard could offer FA like Harvard.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt just announced a new financial aid initiative this week. All need based loans will be replaced by grants. There is no income threshold at which the family is not expected to pay - the EFC (if it's not 0) must still be met - but there will be no loans to meet need.</p>

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<p>the short answer is zip, nada, none, but then again, it depends on how you define middle class (which on cc has been known to exceed $200k!). Due to direct compeition, Yale is probably the only college that might come close to Harvard's 10% tuition deal up to $180k. Princeton also has the endowment, but might be a little less generous. No other colleges even come close, even those that have gone no-loan.</p>

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<p>One of my previous posts has some good links about schools w ith good middle-class FA.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060917643-post5.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060917643-post5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I believe Brown's revised policy is no loans (only grants) for incomes under 100K (EFC still required). For incomes under 60K, no family contribution.</p>

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<p>FinAid</a> | Answering Your Questions | No Loans for Low Income Students</p>

<p>check this out</p>