Sixty-Two IHEs Claim To Meet The Full Financial Needs Of All Their Students

Some schools make a concerted effort to keep their final prices within a student's ability to pay, based on what's formally known as your expected family contribution (EFC). Your EFC aims to estimate what your family can reasonably spend on one year of college. Among 1,171 institutions that reported the statistic to U.S. News, 62 colleges claim to have met, on average, 100 percent of their admitted full-time undergraduate students' financial need for fall 2010. That means the average gaps between a school's total cost of attendance—tuition, fees, room and board, books, travel, and other expenses—and every student's EFC was filled with some combination of aid.  Read more at:
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2012/02/16/colleges-that-claim-to-meet-full-financial-need