Tuition and Financial Aid

<p>Does anyone have any thoughts, comments or updates as to whether Dartmouth will be adjusting tuition costs like Harvard? If not tuition reduction for <$180,000, how about adjustments to financial aid offers?</p>

<p>considering that Harvard's endowment is about 5 times as large as Dartmouth it is highly unlikely that they will be making tuition reductions for families making $180,000. So far they are not making any changes to the current FA plan.</p>

<p>New FA inititative which was just announced today (sorry still no free tuition for families making $180,000)</p>

<p>Dartmouth President James Wright announced today a number of enhancements to the College's financial aid packages for undergraduates, beginning in academic year 2008-09, to ensure that Dartmouth remains accessible to academically talented students regardless of their financial situation. The new initiatives also extend the College's need-blind admissions program to all international students, who typically represent about 7 percent of each incoming class. The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved the enhanced program at a special board meeting Jan. 16.</p>

<p>Key elements of the initiative, which will go into effect for the coming academic year, include:</p>

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<li>Free tuition for students who come from families with annual incomes below $75,000</li>
<li>Replacing loans with scholarships</li>
<li>Need-blind admissions for international students</li>
<li>Junior leave term with no earnings expectation </li>
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<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Enews/releases/2008/01/22.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/01/22.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Holy tree! That sounds really awesome!</p>

<p>?? How long has Dartmouth been a FASA school? Is this a new change regarding financial aid and calculating EFC? </p>

<p>I was under the impressions FA was calculated using CSS PROFILE paperwork (similar to the self-help calculator on the financial aid website), not FASA. The website now says D must use the higher of either calculation.</p>