<p>I've gotten my fin aid from all my schools now. Caltech officially sucks, it's worse than every other school, including Duke, Cornell, UChicago, Carnegie Mellon, etc...</p>
<p>The best ones are from HYPSM, in that order.</p>
<p>My overall Fin aid package from Caltech was outstanding and worth
the long wait. </p>
<p>:) Thank you Don Crewell and Caltech! :)</p>
<p>It is much better than Stanford and better than Princeton;
MIT's package was outstanding as well. </p>
<p>Caltech and MIT were gentlemen. Menaing minimal or no hoops, clear
directions and respect for the individual.</p>
<p>With Stanford and Princeton, I had to negotiate to get them down to
where they are currently. </p>
<p>M~C~D (A.B. Duke) > P >> S > D (W/o A.B. Duke)</p>
<p>Hi Arwen, congrats! Glad to hear someone else had an experience as good as mine with Caltech finaid...it was starting to sound like Caltech had gotten a whole lot worse relative to its peers over the last four years :)</p>
<p>"HYPS's" financial aid packages must be pretty damned fantastic if everyone is complaining about Caltech. I'm graduating in May with no loans and less than $20k paid over the whole four years combined. How can you get much cheaper than that? I should have applied to "HYPS" - maybe they would have paid me to come!</p>