<p>Hello people,</p>
<p>I'm going to attend an in state college-Texas A&M in fall of 2009.</p>
<p>I was wondering that does any college pay for a student's full tuition when their family's income is less than $60,000?
(full tuition as in basically everything when you get accepted until you graduate.)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I know Stanford pays full tuition for anyone with an income under $100,000. My family fits slightly under that range, and I received full rides based on need from Stanford, Duke, and WUSTL.</p>
<p>Semantics, I know ... but full tuition is not full ride.</p>
<p>I think Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia pay full tuition if under $60K</p>
<p>So does Brown. But they still ask for a student to contribute to his/her education, at certain rates.</p>
<p>Most of the schools that meet full need without loans in their financial aid packages are also highly competitive for admissions. The first hurdle is to gain acceptance. And as Franglish pointed out...many of these schools EXPECT a student contribution.</p>
<p>Princeton has a "no loan" financial aid program, but it depends on your family income and assets. But the student and parent ETC is much lower than the federal formula. Also, outside scholarships will be used to replace the student's ETC unlike some other schools where they decrease their own grants when you get outside scholarships.</p>
<p>Cornell is starting a "no loans" financial aid for income levels of $60,000 and under for the 2008-2009 school year and they will increase the income level to $75,000 for the 2009-2010 school year.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is starting the "no loans" program too and they will aim at the $75,000 income level for 2008-2009 school year.</p>
<p>Also, Stanford is going to use the same program too.</p>
<p>I say just visit each school you want to go to and check to see if you can estimate how much financial aid you might get at a particular university. Princeton has a financial aid calculator tool on their site that has you put estimate income and asset levels to calculate possible aid.</p>
<p>Most of the time a university either uses their own financial formulas to calculate ETC levels, or they use the college board formula or the federal formula. You can just go to their site and find out.</p>
<p>EFC..... Rice is no-loan for under 60,000.</p>
<p>Lafayette College will have the same program in '09-10. Full ride for less than 60K. No tuition for less than 100K.</p>