Universities that are affordable/financial aid (Ivy league /ivyish) (out of state)?

Trev:

I've got good news for you - are you ready?

Nearly every one of the elite (highly selective) colleges and universities in the US guarantees to meet 100% of the demonstrated financial aid need for EVERY student that is accepted.

We're talking Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, but we're also talking schools like MIT, Oberlin, Wellesley, Grinnell, Vanderbilt, and several more.

The challenge is to get IN to one of these fine schools - once you're in, the financial aid office will very carefully evaluate your household circumstances, and provide you with a financial aid package that should make it possible for you to attend.

At Yale, for example, families earning less than $60,000 a year do not pay ANYTHING toward the cost of a student's education. Families earning $60,000 to $120,000 are asked to pay somewhere between 1% and 10% of the total family income.

Scholarships aren't really an issue with the very top schools - in fact, many of them don't offer academic (merit) scholarships at all. All of their students are outstanding students, or they're not accepted to begin with. There's no point in trying to pick the "most outstanding students". Financial aid at these elite institutions is based entirely on financial need.

Hey, I'm not letting you off easy, so get to work. If you don't get IN to one of these schools, you're going to need to line up some scholarship money if you're hoping not to borrow tens of thousands every year at a slightly less prestigious school.

Good luck!