<p>Boston UNiv
Carnegie Mellon
College of William and Mary
Cornell
NYU
UC Berkely
UC San Diego
U Mich
U Virginia
Washington Univ in St. Louis
U Penn</p>
<p>thks</p>
<p>Princeton gives the most financial aid of any school
If you want the best schools, read the Princeton Review
None of the ones you mentioned are on the list (its top 20), i dont think.
Most Ivy League or Tier One schools dont give out academic scholarships, so everything else is need based. Alot depends on how much money the school has in endowments.</p>
<p>From you list, unless you are at the top of the applicant pool knock of BU and NYU both which have reputations for being stingy with aid.</p>
<p>If you are not instate, a recruited athlete or honors program admit, knock out </p>
<p>UC Berkely
UC San Diego
U Mich
U Virginia</p>
<p>Cornell gives need based financial aid but there will be some loans.</p>
<p>NYU is notorious for not too good aid. Are you talking need-based aid? </p>
<p>FYI, when dd applied to several schools, the aid was very similar, even between UC's and out of state privates. What was not similar was the ratio of loans to grants.</p>
<p>wats "dd"
well i could sure use need based aid
y merit aid will be a good bonus
after all i do have 3 siblings, 1 already going to college, and the other 2 coming up</p>
<p>ive been looking endlessly</p>
<p>Need based aid will be based on your EFC. If you have not run your EFC you should do so. You aid is not based on what you <em>think</em> you could use, but rather, on the EFC calculation that uses the numbers from the FAFSA. Having a sibling in college does effect it significantly.</p>
<p>Many of the college you list do not have merit aid. This includes UC's, Cornell, U Penn, so maybe you want to rethink those. I don't know about the others, but don't count on aid for state colleges where you are out of state. The others should all give similar aid, based on the EFC, but like I said, some are more generous to give university grants instead of loans.</p>
<p>srry but im new to all this financial stuff</p>
<p>EFC is Estimated Financial Contribution.</p>
<p>DD stands for __ daughter (Darling daughter?)</p>
<p>dd= dear daughter, dafling daughter
EFC= expected family contribution</p>
<p>NYU does not meet 100% of your demonstrated need and is known to leave hughe gaps and give huge loans.</p>
<p>after or before applying to colleges</p>
<p>There are free EFC calculators avaliable.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1151%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1151</a> gives some good links</p>
<p>"so how y when do i run the EFC </p>
<p>after or before applying to colleges"</p>
<p>Before applying. That way if your EFC is higher than your parents expected, you'll know to apply to colleges where you're very likely to be able to get merit aid or can avoid room and board costs by iiving at home.</p>
<p>CMU offered the worst financial aid of our college list. Others I know had a similiar outcome.</p>
<p>princeton does seem to have a finaid rankings........</p>