<p>No, i lied. i really like princeton.</p>
<p>I know that if your family's income is less than $65000 harvard doesn't expect you to contribute anything. Am I correct in thinking the exact same thing applies to princeton? or is it less?</p>
<p>princeton doesn't employ any arbitrary income cutoffs, which can sometimes produce "unfair" results; rather, it considers each applicant's entire financial picture. if history is any indication, its aid awards are comparable to if not better than harvard's, but with the benefit of being entirely in grants that needn't be repaid.</p>
<p>see:</p>
<p>also, you might consider using princeton's early estimator to get a ballpark idea of how much aid you'd get there if accepted:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/main/admission-aid/aid/prospective/estimator/%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/main/admission-aid/aid/prospective/estimator/</a>
<a href="https://sweb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/FinAid/finaid_form.pl%5B/url%5D">https://sweb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/FinAid/finaid_form.pl</a></p>
<p>f.scottie is correct. between my harvard financial aid package and my princeton financial aid package, princeton gave more.</p>