<p>I’m not quite sure about Cornell or MIT for financial aid, but I know some of the other top-tier private schools (Duke, Harvard, Stanford, and a few others) meet a student’s full need with grants. The interesting part is that they say families making under $180,000 are not expected to contribute much at all (at least for Harvard). Families making under $60,000 are not expected to contribute anything.</p>
<p>That’s very attractive to me (and I assume most other students not swimming in money), especially when considering that loans or work will most likely be part of my funding for a degree at Michigan.</p>