<p>If you’re just looking for the most modest way of saying you have too much money to qualify for financial aid, then I suggest saying it as simply and straightforwardly as possible - “we will not be needing any financial aid.”</p>
<p>The other posts, however, raise an interesting situation:</p>
<p>If a student is a D1 scholarship recruited athlete, then telling an Ivy coach that you won’t be needing financial aid (i.e., wouldn’t qualify for any financial aid) is alerting that coach that he is likely to be at a competitive disadvantage against the D1s that will be offering scholarships, and that attending his school will be significantly more expensive (regardless of how well you can afford it) than any D1 offering a scholarship. He may, as a result, think recruiting your student may not be an efficient use of his recruiting time. </p>
<p>My only suggestion to anyone in this situation is that if the Ivy is your preference, make very certain that the coach understands that.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, therefore, the Ivies are at a significant disadvantage in recruiting D1 scholarship athletes who cannot qualify for need-based financial aid.</p>
<p>For those D1 scholarship athletes who do qualify for need-based financial aid, as well as for those non-D1 scholarship athletes who don’t qualify for need-based financial aid, the Ivies seem to be on an equal footing with the D1s.</p>