<p>I’m sure there have been many posts on this, but how is financial aid at Brown compared to other Ivies… namely Princeton? I am interested in applying either ED to Princeton or Brown, and I believe academically I have more of a chance at Brown but Princeton’s no loan policy is too good to pass up considering ED is binding. Is Brown huge on the loans or what?</p>
<p>they paid about 42k for me with about 5k loans. It's good for a freshman but it's supposed to get worse later.</p>
<p>if you really need the money, they're good (they hooked me up like crazy)</p>
<p>they have the smallest endowment of all the ivies (though still significantly bigger then many schools)...which is something that ruth simmons is working on, but still...</p>
<p>my sister goes to princeton, and i'm brown 09 next year, and i would have to say from her experiences that Princeton FA is better, though my package has improved a lot in 2 instances and is now comparable to hers.</p>
<p>wow a daughter going to Princeton and a daughter going to Brown.</p>
<p>your parents must be darn proud.</p>
<p>I'm an only child... I'm the only hope of bringing any college glory to the family name. No pressure though, eh?</p>
<p>I think Brown has a policy that they will match any other Ivy league school's offer, and any offer from Stanford, MIT, and U Chicago.</p>
<p>finaid at brown....SUCKS for internationals. actually i dont even think they offer any..do they?</p>
<p>No internationals get aid at any Ivies I don't think.</p>
<p>harvard, yale and princeton give aid to internationals.</p>
<p>brown doesn't give fin aid to intls????? someone I know (from Romania) applied early and recived fin aid....and I don't think he's case is particular,is it?....OMG I'm confused right now :confused: ....I really wanna apply early to brown too! :(</p>
<p>Eh Brown's aid isn't the best. It isn't a very rich Ivy, I think. However, Brown did recently receive that multimillion-dollar donation. Regardless, Brown's aid did not appeal to me at all.</p>
<p>Brown has the 4/5th largest endowment per student in the ivy league, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>In dollars per student Brown is 4th or 5th, in net we're at the bottom. But net isn't what's important really.</p>
<p>Exactly...</p>
<p>last fall Brown reveived a $100 million donation to replace all loans with grants for the neediest students (in other words, these students will graduate with no debt)</p>
<p>I could be wrong, but I think Internationals DO get aid; it's just on a need-aware basis. A lot of schools that are need-blind for domestic students are need-blind for internationals. (This is mainly because there can be a lot of additional costs associated with international students, such as airfare, and if someone literally has no money, the school has to pay for everything. Now, if it were up to me, Brown would be need-blind for internationals as well, but Brown's policy is pretty normal.)</p>
<p>Princeton and Harvard, in theory, have the best financial aid policies in the country. And Brown is not the richest school (it's not poor, but it doesn't have a mega endowment). However, financial aid really varies a lot from person to person. There doesn't seem to be a logic to how aid gets given out... in other words, some students get really good aid packages from certain schools and bad aid packages from other schools, while the schools are reversed for other students.
At admitted students weekends, I'd hear things like "I wanted to go to Yale, but they didn't give me as much money as Brown," and then "Really? Because I preferred Brown but Yale gave me more money." I heard countless numbers of such conversations with the names of various schools. </p>
<p>So, in summary: you really couldn't be sure whether Princeton or Brown would give you more money. I could be mistaken, but I think that some ED schools will give you estimates of your aid packages BEFORE you apply ED. I also think that you can back out of an ED agreement if the school gives you way too little aid.</p>
<p>financial aid blows if you get admitted off the waiting list.</p>
<p>I was just going to say it blows regardless...</p>