<p>students who are accepted to harvard and make less than 60000 anualy get a full ride?</p>
<p>This site should answer all your questions…</p>
<p>[Financial</a> Aid Office](<a href=“http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do]Financial”>http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do)</p>
<p>wow… if only I was special enough to get into harvard… id be having a full ride with a 0 efc and no income myself…</p>
<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>I am new to this site. I’m wondering if someone can direct me to general F/A for low income-especially older returning students? My area of interest is nursing. It is awesome to see that $60T is considered low income, I should fair very well if the same holds true in other places! Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>IhopnU, it does not hold true in other places. Harvard, and a very small handful of other colleges – all of them VERY hard to get into, even for tip top students – have financial aid that generous.</p>
<p>60K is not considered low-income by most other standards, notwithstanding how you hear people talk about it here. It’s a middle-class income. With a 60K income, if there is more than one student in the family in college at the same time, you may qualify for a small amount of federal grant aid (probably in the $1000-$2000 range), but that is very small money relative to the costs of college.</p>
<p>There are schools that are more generous than others, but very, very few that will give “full rides” to students in modest income brackets. None of them offer nursing programs, as far as I know.</p>
<p>ihopnU, when you say “returning” … do you already have a bachelors degree? If so, please know that there is no federal aid other than loans for second bachelors students.</p>
<p>Georgetown University has a College of Nursing and I believe it says it meets full need.</p>
<p>Meeting full need is not the same thing as giving a “full ride” to students under 60K. My daughter’s state univ. “meets full need”. All that means is that after they determine how much they think you can afford to pay, they will offer you some grants (if you’re lucky), and loans to make up the rest. You’re still paying, both with current payments and with future ones (debt.)</p>
<p>[Project</a> on Student Debt: Financial Aid Pledges](<a href=“http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php]Project”>http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php)
There is a list at this site of the schools that have made pledges to reduce student debt (and most of them are not offering “full rides” to students under a certain income.)</p>
<p>The list does not include many schools that “meet full need” (including Georgetwn) since all that means if after <em>they</em> figure out how much you can afford, they’ll offer you loans to make up the difference. Some students can get great offers of grant aid from generous schools that will reduce the amount you have to borrow – but you have to apply and once you’re accepted you’ll get a FA offer. It may or not be something that is possible for you afford in practical fact.</p>