Full Need Colleges
There are 72 colleges and universities in the United States that have the resources and the commitment to give you all the money you need to go to their schools. In other words, they will meet your full demonstrated need, the financial need you and your family have according to the FAFSA and/or their own individual financial aid application. Think of it this way: if you are accepted, they will pay you to come to their school! To get in, you need the grades and good SAT scores (around 1400 should do it!) And you may need to buy some warm woolies--the further from Kaua'i, the more interesting you will look to them! But this could be worth tens of thousands of dollars before you graduate!
U.S. INSTITUTIONS THAT MEET FULL DEMONSTRATED NEED (the big guns...)
Amherst College, Massachusetts
Barnard College, New York
Boston College, Massachusetts
Bowdoin College, Maine
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Brown University, Rhode Island
California Institute of Technology, California
Claremont McKenna College, California
College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
Columbia University, New York
Cornell University, New York
Curtis Institute of Music, Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Davidson College, North Carolina
Duke University, North Carolina
Emory University, Georgia
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Grinnell College, Iowa
Hamilton College, New York
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Harvey Mudd College, California
Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College, Vermont
Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute, California
Northwestern University, Illinois
Olin College, Massachusetts
Pomona College, California
Princeton University, New Jersey
Rice University, Texas
Stanford University, California
St. John's College, Maryland/New Mexico
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
University of Chicago, Illinois
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond, Virginia
University of Rochester, New York
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Vassar College, New York
Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Williams College, Massachusetts
ALSO (just a little smaller...)
Bates College
Byn Mawr College
Carleton College
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Emory College
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Macalester College
Mount Holyoke College
Oberlin College
Pitzer College
Reed College
Scripps College
Skidmore College
Smith College
Thomas Aquinas College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Union College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan University
Again, credit and thanks go to Deborah Ching, college consultant. To contact her directly, call (808) 783-4070 or email deborah.ching@gmail.com
Ching Consulting: 1090 Ala Napunani Street, #317, Honolulu, HI 96818