Which school offered the best financial aid package to your child?

[Anonymous]

The private schools offered more aid in terms of dollars, of course, but in-state and even OOS publics ended up as the best options.

Got aid from every school but Rutgers in-state.

NJIT (in-state)- $10K, total COA about $24K
Rutgers in-state--nothing, total COA about $32K
Clarkson--$44,500K, total COA about $34K
UConn (OOS)--$23K, total COA about $36K
RPI--$38K, total COA about $44K
Embry Riddle--$11K, total COA about $50K
RIT--21K, total COA about $51K
Drexel--$28K, total COA about $52,500
WPI--$21K, total COA about $55,000

Chose RPI.

[Anonymous]

GW, around 25K Merit, but still well over in-state Virginia schools. Opted for UVA instead.

[Anonymous]

Case Western offered excellent merit aid. We didn't even apply for financial aid, but school acceptance letter awarded my kid 35k per year.

[Anonymous]

I know this will seem less impressive to the Harvard/Yale/Princeton offers but:

My child got merit aid offers at Emerson (10K), Butler (34K), Catholic (30K), Pitt (10K), IU (10K), St.Mary's of MD (5K), and Penn State (20K).
They also got admitted to UMD and were waitlisted for a performance scholarship that was a full ride (but they did not receive). We are in state in MD.

They chose UMBC and got into a scholars program that offered a full tuition scholarship for all four years. 15K per year, loving it