Hamilton College
Scholarships

Perfect.

I love the need-blind policy. Otherwise, I wouldn't even be here.

Money? Wish I Had It

I wish Hamilton gave me more money. I fall in the middle, economically, and my parents don't have enough to make the $26,000 that was still left as a yearly tuition after scholarships. It seems like most people around me either have money to pay the full $50,000 a year with no problem, or are on the other end of the spectrum and get a lot of need-based scholarships.

Aid? No. Random Summer Scholarships? Yep.

Hamilton is a "need-blind" school now, which is just one of those nice PR moves, really. I don't think it changes anything. If you've got the grades, you're going to get in. They'll meet your FASFA expected family contribution, but they aren't going to budge after that. There's a lot of prizes you can win to do cool things over the summer--people seriously get funding to go eat food in different countries and present on it when they get back in the fall. It's really awesome. The school's great with extra funding for student side projects, but in terms of actually paying to go there, scholarships are rare. I don't know of anyone on a merit scholarship. And me? I'll be drowning in loans when I graduate. Yick.