"Harvard is too expensive, even if I did get in..." SO WRONG!
Harvard can actually be cheaper than going to ISU! All because of a little thing called needs blind/needs met admissions. Read on to see how the school of your dreams can be totally affordable!
Needs blind admissions means that schools do not base your acceptance on weather or not you are able to pay.
Needs met schools are schools that will meet your financial needs with grants. This means that they pay whatever you and your family cannot in the form of private grants from the school. AKA they give you money to go there in your financial aid package that you do not pay back ever!
Needs-met schools make college affordable for all accepted students. To get the financial aid from these schools you must have a social security number, and you must complete the government FAFSA form, as well as a CSS profile. In order to complete these forms, you will need to have your parents provide you with their taxes and income for the past year. This is how financial aid is determined for all schools in the US. PBL offers an information session for parents on how to fill out this form. Check the website for this date.
Also, some schools provide a financial aid calculator for you to see an estimate of how much aid you would get, and how much your family would be expected to pay for college. This is a handy tool for picking which school to attend.
Here is a list of schools that are needs blind and needs met admission
A number of U.S. institutions of higher learning state that they offer both need-blind admissions and full-need for U.S. students. The following schools state they are need-blind and full-need:
- Barnard College (need-aware for transfer students)[11]
- Beloit College
- Boston College
- Bowdoin College (need-aware for transfer students)[12]
- Brandeis University(need-aware for transfer students)[13]
- Brown University (need-aware for international and transfer students)
- California Institute of Technology
- Claremont McKenna College
- College of the Holy Cross
- Columbia University (does not meet full-need for transfer students) [14]
- Cooper Union
- Cornell University
- Davidson College
- Deep Springs College
- Duke University[15]
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- Grinnell College
- Hamilton College[16]
- Harvard College[17]
- Haverford College
- Harvey Mudd College[18]
- Johns Hopkins University[19]
- Knox College
- Lawrence University
- Middlebury College
- Northwestern University
- Olin College[20]
- Pomona College
- Rice University[21]
- Stanford University
- Swarthmore College
- University of Chicago
- University of Miami
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [22]
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Richmond
- University of Rochester
- University of Southern California[23]
- University of Virginia[24]
- Vanderbilt University
- Vassar College[25]
- Wellesley College
- Williams College