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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$250K families are getting merit aid at T30? Since when? [/quote]

I am OP and I ran a few calculators and you can get a lot of aid at Harvard and Princeton. The cost gets pretty close to UMD (we are in MD).

I got almost zero aid at, for example Carnegie Mellon. Since there are a lot of schools and we are still some year out of applying, I am looking for leads on other top schools where aid is available. [/quote]

Nice. You must not have a lot of assets outside of retirement/primary residence.. We are in the same income neighborhood and noticed that once you cross the $1.5-$2M threshold for assets, there's zero merit at top schools.[/quote]

That's not quite right. Some top schools offer merit - maybe not the tippy top, but plenty of top 50 schools offer merit regardless of income/assets.  Jeff Selling has a very helpful list of schools that are "buyers" and "sellers" and those that offer no merit aid at all.  I found that list useful and accurate as I went through the process with two different kids.

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This is better; look at undergrads without need columns:
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/merit-aid
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