Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
anybody send their daughter to Northwestern and care to share how much tuition assistance was received? either athletic, academic or economic..
what is a typical offer for an incoming freshman.
annual tuition is about $75K.. ( I can't swing it without help )


obviously keep it as anonymous as possible no name, no hints.. unless of course you wanna share, then fire away.


Go to the NU website and plug in your financial info into their "Financial Aid Calculator". The Ivy's, Northwestern, Duke, ND, Stanford etc... All have extremely generous "Need Based Aid". Unlikely that your child will receive any "Academic / Merit" Aid at NU. The top recruits can be significant Athletic $$. You can not combine Athletic and Need based aid.

In our experience the financial aid calculators at places like Northwestern are pretty accurate.


Absolutely correct. The Financial Aid calculator at Ivy's Duke, NW, Hopkins and Stanford are all very accurate. Other schools not so much. In many cases you can receive more money in need based aid than they will offer athletically. Even if you have high income. Even if you make over 200k you can still get about 70% in need based aid. The hard part is getting into those schools. Lacrosse helps with that part. They will make sure you can afford it and do what works best.