How hard is it to get a full scholarship into either Harvard, Yale, or Princeton?

Question

Or atleast any kind of scholarship...

Answer 1

IT is easy to get a scholarship at these schools. They are rich. Harvard has by far the largest endowment of any university in the world. If you go there and your family has less than $65,000 USD per year, it is free.

The hard part is getting in.

According to an article a few days ago in the New York Times, this year Harvard had over 22,000 applications from the best students in the world and turned down over 20,000 of them, including hundreds of students who had perfect 800s on SATs and probably thousands who had GPAs over 4.0

Unless you are literally the best student in your school and have the support of all your teachers, and a long list of outstanding success in your extracurricular leadership positions, you are probably not going to have any chance of admission at these schools.

Fortunately there are 4000 other colleges in the USA. If you are a decent student nearly all of them will be happy to take you.

Answer 2

Good luck with that one. Those are three of the most competitive Universities in the world. I'm sure it's next to impossible to get a full scholarship. A friend of mine had a 1600 SAT score (aka - perfect) and was a valedictorian in high school, went to Yale and was AVERAGE. He had a difficult time maintaining a 2.0 GPA because they were all grading on the curve.

Crazy!