<p>How do people get full scholarships to Harvard?
What are some ways to get full scholarship or at least good scholarship to Harvard?</p>
<p>Financial aid (scholarship) is only need based, not merit based.</p>
<p>if your parents' combined income is under $60,000, all you have to pay for is books (about $3500)</p>
<p>it's all need-based financial aid; since everyone at harvard has high stats, no merit scholarships are offered</p>
<p>And if your family income is between $60,000 - $180,000, a need-based scholarship will reduce your cost to about 10% of that income. But realize this about merit scholarships - they're not rewards for good students. They're a strategy for bringing in students who are so overqualified for a school - compared to its typical students - that there would otherwise be no way of attracting them. That's why Harvard and the other Ivies have no merit scholarships - there's no one above them to draw away the talent pool they seek.</p>