Yale University
Jul 9th, 2009 | By Samuel | Category: Need Blind AdmissionsFinancial Aid for International Students
- Yale is strongly committed to equality of opportunity. Its need-blind admissions policy extends to international students and ensures that the College will be accessible to all candidates from any part of the world who show great academic and personal promise. An application for financial aid will have no bearing on the Admissions Committee’s decisions, and Yale will meet the full demonstrated need of any candidate admitted. Awards combine gift assistance, long-term loans, and term-time employment. The student’s family will be expected to contribute funds to the extent that it can, and the student must make sure that these funds can be withdrawn from his or her country. International financial aid forms are available on the Financial Aid Web site.
Yale Cuts Costs for Families and Students
- New Haven, Conn. — Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that Yale is reducing the average cost of sending a student to Yale College by over 50% for families with financial need. This new policy will apply to all students returning to campus in the fall as well as entering freshmen. This represents the largest increase in spending for financial aid in the University’s history.
- The reduction in costs will be spread across a broad range of incomes. Families with incomes below $120,000 will see their contributions cut by more than 50%, while most families with incomes between $120,000 and $200,000 will see cost reductions of 33% or more.
- Families earning less than $60,000 annually will not make any contribution toward the cost of a child’s education, and families earning $60,000 to $120,000 will typically contribute from 1% to 10% of total family income. The contribution of aided families earning above $120,000 will average 10% of income.
- Yale also is increasing the number of families who qualify for aid, eliminating the need for students to take loans, enhancing its grants to families with more than one child attending college, exempting the first $200,000 of family assets from the assessment of need, and increasing expense allowances for foreign students during school vacation periods. Yale calculates financial aid by taking into consideration a family’s total income and assets, family size and number of children in college, family medical bills, state of residence, and a number of other factors.
- The combined changes will increase Yale’s financial aid budget by more than $24 million, to over $80 million annually. Yale also announced that it would hold its increase in tuition, room, and board charges in 2008-2009 to the expected level of consumer price inflation, 2.2%.
- “Yale should be a college of choice for the very best and brightest students from across America and around the world, regardless of financial circumstances. We want all of our students to make the most of Yale – academically and beyond – without worrying about excessive work hours or debt. Our new financial aid package makes this aspiration a reality,” said Levin.
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