Hello, I want to make a compilation of schools where the financial aid rivals that of Ivy League schools. Who can help?
Really?
Stanford
MIT
University of Chicago
Amherst
Williams
What exactly do you want to know?
If you compiled a list of schools that meet full need without loans (or without loans for lower incomes) you’d have a list of colleges that offer aid that is superior to some of the Ivies.
You can just google those.
We found the financial aid at Vanderbilt to be excellent, slightly above EFC.
Amy school with an endowment over $10,000,000,000.
Stanford
UChicago
Duke
Caltech
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Wash U
Vanderbilt
Rice
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Emory
Williams
Amherst
Swat
Pomona
Middlebury
Wellesley
Bowdoin…
Grinnell, Vassar, Colgate
go to collegedata
‘search for colleges’
‘financial need met’ choose “95% or higher” (some FA-friendly schools are at 99%)
sort by ‘student debt’ (avg debt is a good way to measure FA-friendliness)
there will be outliers, but you will notice the top names toward the top of the results list. you can also search according to merit aid as well. Collegedata compiles the CDS’s for all the schools for you, so it’s very handy. If you want to see historic trends, you’ll need to look at CDS’s for an individual school directly.
The ivies aren’t all the same in terms of FA.
Some include loans in their packages and your EFC can vary from 1 to the other. I think HYP can be better than the others. It might be harder to find schools that rival HYP than schools that rival say Cornell.
Take all of the suggestions you find here and run their net price calculators for your financial situation to see which has the lowest net price for you.
Again I ask…what does the OP really want to know?
In addition to some packaging loans and others not…there are other considerations.
Some are need aware for admissions.
Some include larger amounts from home equity.
If there is a non-custodial parent, this has different implications
If your family owns a business…some schools treat that differently.
Not one size fits all even for schools that guarantee to meet full need for all.
Go to any website that has common data set stats for colleges, like collegeboard.org. Look up the college and check the stats for what % of studetns “had full net met”. You want that as close to 100% as possible.
Also check what percent of aid is in grants/scholarships. Again, more the merrier.
Compare these stats on your prospective colleges to get a feel for who offers the best aid.
One other thing to consider: The more competitive yoru app is, the better the aid package is likely to be. If you have good grades/scores you should do better than average at most schools.
bump thumper1 “No one size fits all” – many considerations to take into account. Also run net price calcs on all schools with your own particular family situation. Generalizations can help you to start to look but they will not tell you which schools which turn out to be the most generous for your specific aid package.
Also note that some non-Ivys give more aid than some Ivys.