<p>Does anyone know of any colleges that guarantee that their students will not graduate with debt?</p>
<p>Ones I know of:
Rice University if your income is below 80000
Princeton University if your income is below 75000</p>
<p>Anyone know any others?</p>
<p>There’s a difference between “guaranteeing that students will not graduate with debt” and meeting need without debt for certain incomes.</p>
<p>Does your family have an income in the above ranges? Are you trying to find schools that won’t put loans in FA packages?</p>
<p>Schools can’t guarantee that some students won’t have debt if the students have EFCs to cover.</p>
<p>Im sorry, I wasnt clear. What I mean to ask was what schools dont have loans as part of their financial packages for a certain income group. Im just curious.</p>
<p>You are looking for full met financial need. I don’t know of too many schools that don’t expect their students to take on any loans.<br>
You will have to research the schools to figure it out. The IVY’s are better at meeting need, but you have to be IVY material and even that said, you have to gain entrance to very selective school. Even if your EFC is 0, you and your family will be expected to contribute to you education.
If your stats are very good, you can look into schools that give out very good merit aaaid… Please check out the sticky topics at the top of this page.</p>
<p>You can find that information here: [Project</a> on Student Debt: Financial Aid Pledges](<a href=“http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php]Project”>http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php)</p>
<p>Be sure to confirm that the information is up-to-date with the colleges themselves.</p>
<p>Last year Harvard met need for families making less than $60K.</p>
<p>'rentof2 You are amazing. That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.</p>
<p>You’re welcome. Thanks for the thanks. :)</p>
<p>As 'rentof2 said, be sure to check with the schools for current policies. Williams and Dartmouth have gone back to using loans. Dartmouth will package up to $5500/yr in loans. That is beyond what loans a family might need to meet their EFC.</p>
<p>Yeah, Williams has announced they’ll go back to loans for students above a certain (unnamed) income limit. That will be starting with the 2011-12 academic year. I had not heard about Dartmouth. Interesting.</p>
<p>There are people who believe the shift back to loans is going to like dominoes falling. I imagine it may well be. As of last week Amherst and Swarthmore said they’re sticking with no-loan policies. I imaging the big guns (HYPS) will as well. But everything is up for grabs if things change for the worse, or don’t get better on the expected timeline.</p>
<p>I just read an article about the Dartmouth change. It’s not too drastic, which is nice. There will still be no loans packaged for students with family incomes under 75K, and loans for students above that level will be capped at between $2500 - $5000 per year depending on where they fall in the income range. Also current students and students who applied for the academic year beginning this fall will be grandfathered under the no-loans policy. I’d say that still puts it right up there among schools with the most generous aid.</p>
<p>Williams did the same thing, except they didn’t announce a income figure below which students would still be receiving no-loans aid packages. It will probably be similar to Dartmouth’s, I would imagine.</p>