Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 17:01     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst, Vassar, Cornell based on my daughter’s offers last year. But low assets as income tripled just 3 years ago.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 16:56     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Aid, like financial aid? Or merit. Hopefully $0 if the former. The latter, it all depends on your student's standing among the others.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 16:26     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
There are a lot of factors besides HHI, including value of assets (and different schools calculate assets differently, like whether or not full, partial, or no home value is included) number of kids, etc. You have to run the NPCs.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 16:18     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton or state school like UMBC if kid can get merit money.

Emory, John Hopkins. You will still get aid. For example if school is 94k you may get 20k off and still be left will 74k. You may be better off at state school with merit money. Safety can give merit money too. Otherwise love your state school and full pay.


This is the whole joke with the 94k price tag. They hike tuition up to this astronomical level almost no one can afford, so that they can appear generous when they offer "aid" to get the price down to... a still extremely high price that almost no one can afford. Then wealthy families can brag their kid got a scholarship at some big name school, but in reality it's a marketing ploy to make you feel less swindled by the astronomical prices of these schools that cannot possibly be justified.


At most of these elite schools, about half or more are still paying full freight.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 16:11     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Anonymous wrote:Princeton or state school like UMBC if kid can get merit money.

Emory, John Hopkins. You will still get aid. For example if school is 94k you may get 20k off and still be left will 74k. You may be better off at state school with merit money. Safety can give merit money too. Otherwise love your state school and full pay.


This is the whole joke with the 94k price tag. They hike tuition up to this astronomical level almost no one can afford, so that they can appear generous when they offer "aid" to get the price down to... a still extremely high price that almost no one can afford. Then wealthy families can brag their kid got a scholarship at some big name school, but in reality it's a marketing ploy to make you feel less swindled by the astronomical prices of these schools that cannot possibly be justified.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 16:09     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Nope/ nada
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:56     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Anonymous wrote:You need to run your net price calculator. Situation depends from family to family. You may end up with 60 to 70 percent of the tuition. Every dollar helps. You may not get anything too. In state school, you will be full pay.


+1 The level of aid may be vastly different for a family with 6 kids, 4 of whom are college age and whose parents are close to retirement age, compared to a family with 1 child with relatively younger parents. Just use the calculator.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:52     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Anonymous wrote:Princeton or state school like UMBC if kid can get merit money.

Emory, John Hopkins. You will still get aid. For example if school is 94k you may get 20k off and still be left will 74k. You may be better off at state school with merit money. Safety can give merit money too. Otherwise love your state school and full pay.


Isn’t Emory need aware now?
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:46     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
You need to run your net price calculator. Situation depends from family to family. You may end up with 60 to 70 percent of the tuition. Every dollar helps. You may not get anything too. In state school, you will be full pay.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:45     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Anonymous wrote:Princeton or state school like UMBC if kid can get merit money.

Emory, John Hopkins. You will still get aid. For example if school is 94k you may get 20k off and still be left will 74k. You may be better off at state school with merit money. Safety can give merit money too. Otherwise love your state school and full pay.


Yep
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:41     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
How much aid are they offering for $300+ HHI?
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:41     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Princeton or state school like UMBC if kid can get merit money.

Emory, John Hopkins. You will still get aid. For example if school is 94k you may get 20k off and still be left will 74k. You may be better off at state school with merit money. Safety can give merit money too. Otherwise love your state school and full pay.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:37     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Stanford
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:22     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
Pay up. Jesus Christ.
Anonymous
Post 01/07/2026 15:20     Subject: Aid for families w income of $300k+
In response to another thread, a poster noted that Princeton will give aid to families with incomes above $300k.

Any other colleges do this? I know I can run net price calculators for each school but wondering if someone who has been through this before may know of others.

Thanks!