<p>How good is the financial aid offered at Lehigh? Better than other colleges? This is the only private school I am seriously considering for business.</p>
<p>Lehigh and Lafayette are the only 2 schools I know of that offer "grant to need" aid to some students, i.e. they will meet the student's need with grants only (no gap and no loans.) So if you are one of the lucky ones, their aid can be VERY good.</p>
<p>Lehigh also gives more need based aid than merit aid. My daughter was in the top 10 students in her class at her high school. Lehigh was the only school that accepted her that gave her NO merit aid. Not a dime.</p>
<p>So you have to be one of the very lucky ones to get both merit and need based aid.</p>
<p>My son, too, was near the top of his high school class but received no merit aid from Lehigh. But Lehigh's need-based package was by far the best of all the private schools he was accepted to. A generous grant, reasonable loans and work-study, gap of less than $1000. And it's been a comparable package each year so far (he's a junior now).</p>
<p>Wow, no merit aid? I think I would be in decent shape for financial aid but my parents have a lot of investments...</p>
<p>Dzirob, Lehigh offers merit aid, but very little, percentage-wise. Only the very top of the applicant pool receives merit aid.</p>
<p>Most top private universities offer little, if any, merit aid.</p>