It also leaves her slightly uncertain about how much of the cost of college she’ll end up shouldering herself. Yoli is the oldest of three, and her younger brother is a high school senior, which means it’s her turn to pass on the college application advice to look at a price tag before picking a school. It was pretty much if you need help, just ask.” “I went to a really small school and we had a college counselor who did a lot of one-on-one with each student,” she said.
“It was kind of interesting seeing our financials, how they actually work,” she said, noting that some questions, like property value, weren’t even on her radar.ĭespite those surprises, she felt decently prepared for the process. After all, why bother heading out of state to pay through the nose when rankings consistently place the nearby state university in top 50 rankings ?Īlthough Yoli said her family talked about the cost of college before application time, the details of their situation were fuzzy until she watched her mom fill out financial aid forms. She also immediately crossed off any school estimated to cost more than UW Madison.
“The chances of getting a merit scholarship would be really low, so it would not be worth it to apply and bank on that.” "We looked at schools that met 100 percent financial need and I only applied to those, except UW Madison ," Yoli said of her application process. Grinnell’s need-blind policy and commitment to meeting students' financial aid popped it up to the top of the list for second-year student Yoli Martin, who is from the suburbs of Madison, Wisconsin. Ask higher education experts at the New York Times, the Hechinger Report, or the Washington Post and they’ll all tell you Iowa’s Grinnell College is determined to be socioeconomically diverse.
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