<p>Hi, Is NU likely to be worth considering if the NPC puts us at about 60K? We are looking at rounding out the list and this is higher even than Berkeley so I am wondering if I have something wrong? </p>
<p>Looking at chem eng</p>
<p>general stats for white male OOS. Will not qualify for any FA. </p>
<p>ACT 33
IB diploma (HL chem, physics, eng, hist, SL math (4) spanish (6) (they sit the SLs in junior yr). No projected scores that I know.
11 APs on graduation (so far human geo 4, gov 3, bio 4, eng lang, 4 hist 5) will take BC calc stats, physics c, chem, english lit
GPA 3.9, 3.9,4.0 (school does not weight). No class rank (IB diploma in a large public high school). </p>
<p>We found Northwestern’s NPC to be accurate - but we have a fairly simple financial profile with wage-earning parents and no small business income or rental income/properties. Those last two factors make the NPC’s less accurate at most schools.
Although NU promises to meet 100% of need (as they define it of course), they give very, very little merit aid beyond that. They have college sponsored National Merit Scholarships of $2,000 per year. I have been told, although I don’t see it on the Financial Aid website, that there are small performing arts scholarships that are merit based. There are also a few other small, very specific scholarships (such as for children of employees of a particular company) that may be available on a merit basis. If you look at the most recent Common Data Set, NU gave over $115 million in need-based institutional aid, and less than $1 million in merit based aid that was not used to meet need. The average, non-need based scholarship was around $2,500.
So, while I think NU is always worth considering, your family will have to decide if you can pay the family contribution that NU expects. NU is not likely to give you merit aid to reduce that contribution.</p>