How many admits receive a full ride from Harvard every year?
Which T20 offers highest number of full ride or full tuition offers?
Harvard provides need based aid only. Are you asking how many students receive full funding because they are low income? Why do you want to know that?
Most of the top 20 schools provide the bulk of their aid in the form of need based aid.
Perhaps you can find this info by looking at the common data set for each school.
But really…why do you want to know?
Yes. I’m asking about need based aid.
Any top 20 win D1 sports outside of the ivies with a football or basketball team. The other men’s sports is more of an edge for admissions is the payoff. Need based after that for most men’s sports. A few sprinkled in there for hockey.
Corresponding funds for women’s sports but generally allocated to a larger group and so not as many full rides outside of women’s lacrosse basketball and hockey. Maybe a golfer or two.
Academics merit scholarships for a full room and board. None that I knew of at all. Perhaps Cal. Usually would require to win a Robertson’s or Jeffferson type special award.
Technically no full rides based on Harvard’s financial aid alone, since Harvard’s maximum financial aid package gives a net price of $3,500, according to https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculator . Some may top it off with outside scholarships to get actual full rides.
Maximum financial aid goes up to about $65k income (family of 3, 1 in college), which is close to the Pell grant limit, and 17% of Harvard frosh get Pell grants.
Other than athletic scholarships, the only explicitly full ride is the Drake scholarship, for mechanical engineering majors only. Maximum normal in-state FA leaves a net price of $10k, based on the net price calculator; a Regents’ scholarship would replace that $10k of expected student loan and student work with scholarship money, giving a full ride if the scholarship student would have otherwise gotten maximum normal in-state FA. Regents’ scholarships are rare.
Thanks @ucbalumnus OP. Cal is off the list too.
@privatebanker: “Academics merit scholarships for a full room and board”
Duke has some. Possibly some at Vandy and WashU though evidently tougher to get now.
Not sure what the point of this question is but Harvard indicates pretty prominently on their FA page that 20% pay nothing to attend. Folks should run the NPC if they’re interested in what their cost would be.
https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid says that “20% of Harvard families pay nothing”. However, the $3,500 minimum net price that Harvard’s net price calculator shows is the student work contribution that Harvard expects, rather than parent (which they apparently mean by “families”) contribution.
^ yes, I took it to mean zero cost after the student work contribution (which most schools give students plenty of opportunity to earn during school, and for that matter is less than many can earn over the summer…though perhaps not this particular summer unfortunately).
It’s good to know that Harvard gives full need based ride to 20% applicants. Is there any other T20 giving similar or higher number of similar full rides.
My question is not about merit, athletic or outside scholarships, just need based ones.
Well, it’s easy to know that if Harvard is giving money it is need based. That’s ALL they give. It’s harder to compare a school that also gives merit and athletic and talent awards as they are going to want to give those first and then give the need based awards (if allowed to stack).
My daughter had merit and athletic and state and federal money and a private scholarship. If you looked on the Common Data sheet it would look like she didn’t receive need based aid so her aid wouldn’t meet your strict definition of the school giving a full ride but the school was still dishing out the money. ND and Duke and Rice are going to want those students who can qualify for an athletic scholarship to take it and then give merit. It might still come out as a full ride.
Section H on the CDS is where one can find the proportion of enrolled students receiving need based aid, and how much on average.
@CupCakeMuffins look at the top 20 schools. Any that meet full need for all will be giving 100% need based awards to students from very low income families where the school calculates their family contribution to be $0.
What else do you need to know…and why? Are you seeking info for one of your own kids? Writing a book? Why is this easy to find info something you need to know.
Thank you for your answers. I’ll look up detailed information on every college’s website.