Dickinson- full pay
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Anonymous
| Does anyone pay the full cost to attend Dickinson or is it a case of marking up the cost to mark it down with merit aid? We won’t qualify for financial aid but $78k/yr is a lot! |
Anonymous
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81% receive institutional grants or scholarships
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=dickinson&s=all&id=212009#finaid |
Anonymous
| On their common data set, it looked like 81 freshmen receive non-need (merit) aid, with an average award of over $20,000 per year. For all undergrads, 276 students receive an average of over $15,000 per year. So either they've just started being more generous, or they are most generous with freshmen. |
Anonymous
| The cost is marked up sky high |
Anonymous
| Dickinson is a decent school but it’s not worth nearly 80k a year |
Anonymous
| OP here- thanks for the responses! We are early in this process and trying to make sense of the enormous variations in tuition amounts from school to school! |
Anonymous
That seems like a huge red flag |
Anonymous
It’s not necessarily a big or significant discrepancy. 65 v 81? They can’t control how many kids offered big merit awards will accept. Maybe more accepted that year. But it might be worth asking around. |
Anonymous
| My DD liked Dickinson a lot, but even $20k off that tuition leaves a mighty big bill. She ended up declining and chose another school that appealed more, and gave heftier merit. |
Anonymous
| We were full pay at Dickinson. Didn't fill out a FAFSA or apply for any aid anywhere. DC was offered some merit aid at a couple of schools anyway but not at Dickinson. |
Anonymous
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DC really liked Dickinson. Had to break it to DC that we'd have to cross off the list.
Even if DC got the biggest scholarship they have- it's still too hefty. Plus, they require students to live on campus all 4 years so housing costs will not go down. |
Anonymous
What a bizarre school to go to for full pay. |
Anonymous
Oh, congrats! Do you mind mentioning which school or any others that your family considered? We're trying to put together a college list for our twins who like LACs in PA and the Midwest. Thanks! |
Anonymous
Not everyone is going to harvard. or emory. it is what it is. |
Anonymous
Not the PP, but here are the PA/Midwest schools one of our twins considered: Franklin and Marshall Grinnell Kalamazoo Kenyon Lafayette Macalester Oberlin GL in your search! |