<ol>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>WUStL</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>SEE: "Great schools, great prices" USNews, America's Best Colleges 2006, p. 64</p>
<p>Byerly ... great list in post #119 ... was that list for Universities only or did it include LACs and they did not make the list? Thanks!</p>
<p>There is a separate list for LACs. Herewith, the top 10:</p>
<ol>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
<li>Macalaster</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
<li>Centre College
1o. Carleton</li>
</ol>
<p>Thank you Byerly :)</p>
<p>I see that the last post on this featured thread came just before the national reply date. Now that everyone has had time to compare competing offers from the schools you were admitted to, did Harvard financial aid offers meet your expectations? Were you able to afford to say yes to Harvard? </p>
<p>(I am asking about this same issue on other college-specific fora on CC. I have no personal experience with elite college financial aid offers: I applied only to State U back in my day, and paid list price at a time when it had very few "merit" scholarships. I'm wondering how affordable the high-list-price schools are for middle-class families. Any information on this point is welcome.)</p>
<p>Thankyou tokenadult to ask this relevant question on this thread :)</p>
<p>For people like us who will depend on financial aid to send kids to college, they would definitely benefit with the financial aid data information. Thus, it is so important for us to choose schools based on the financial aid data.</p>
<p>Please give us some ideas that in around $65,000 how much will be parental contribution? Is it going to be around $5000 or they will give us a loan for $XXXXX dollars and $5000 in parental contribution. Thanks</p>
<p>Will this policy still work for international students?</p>
<p>It should, Barbie. Harvard is need-blind for all students, including internationals, and will meet the full need of those who are admitted. I can't imagine them not applying this <$60,000/year -> full ride policy to internationals when internationals are treated equally in almost every other respect. (Especially when outgoing president Larry Summers had a very strong pro-international student policy, and also when the same Larry Summers introduced this full ride policy...)</p>
<p>Yes. The only difference is that your award will consist of Harvard grants and scholarships, Harvard subsidized loans, and while there is a work component - it isn't federal work study.</p>