<p>Hello! I was just wondering if BC is stingy when it comes to financial aid? Because online it says that the needs are 100% met, but other friends are telling me that they didn’t receive much? Thank you!</p>
<p>It’s all relative. </p>
<p>BC is not as generous as the HYPSM, but then the other Ivies aren’t either. BC is not as generous as the non-HYP Ivies. BC is not as generous as Vandy/Emory. A key differentiator for BC is home equity, which the Ivies tend to discount. </p>
<p>BC doesn’t offer merit scholarships, so may gets beat by those schools too. But a student with a lot of financial need can do better at BC than a merit aid school that does not meet full need. A $25k annual scholarship to Miami or George Washington is great, but not of much help if your need is $40k. OTOH, BC meets full need, as they define it, which is better than other similarly-ranked, need-only schools. Wake Forest meets full need with additional, private loans for example. NYU & Carnegie Mellon don’t meet full need. Tufts is need-aware in admissions.</p>
<p>Awesome! Thank you so much!</p>