<p>Okay so ive been getting my FinAid packages from each school and Yale is definately the outlier...</p>
<p>Granted Gift Aid:</p>
<p>Amherst: $10,000
Stanford: $7,500
Yale: $21,000!!</p>
<p>...judging from the other schools, Yale seems to have given me a VERY generous FinAid offer. They gave me twice as much $$$ as the next highest school. Are other people seeing this too? I just hope they didn't make a mistake :) lol</p>
<p>A biggie with Yale is that home equity numbers are often not used up to a threshhold amount which can account for about $7500 of the windfall.</p>
<p>Yale also just approved a new financial aid initiative, so that could have something to do with it. Yale is a fairly generous school as far as financial aid is concerned (or at least it has been in my experience).</p>
<p>I guess I'll see you on campus in the fall, then, Tupacalipse? ;)</p>
<p>Yale gave me great fin aid as well...about 10K per year better than Brown and about 5K a year better than Northwestern and Columbia...</p>
<p>Brown's sucks... It's the worst fin aid package so far, but I'll have to see about Yale. I haven't gotten it yet, but hopefully, it'll be like the other colleges' or better. I think I'll probably pick up the fin aid stuff during Bulldog Days</p>
<p>Yale wasn't so kind to me... Princeton's offer was 7k better, so i bargained Yale up a bit.</p>
<p>yale's fin aid was matched by JHU, 2k higher than columbia's, 4k higher than stanford's, and 4k higher than duke's. Very generous, but here's the real question: Will i be getting this amount of fin aid each year? Doubtful huh?</p>