Colleges that meet 100% of demonstrated financial need

(a) The Ivy League (all of them are private research universities)
1. Harvard University
2. Yale University
3. Cornell University
4. Princeton University
5. Brown University
6. Columbia University
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Dartmouth College

(b) ​ Top-tier Liberal Arts Colleges

1. Amherst College
2. Swarthmore College
3. Haverford College
4. Davidson College
5. Pomona College
6. Hamilton College
7. Middlebury College
8. Vassar College
9. Whitman College
10. Lafayette College
11. Mount Holyoke College (women’s college)
12. Smith College (women’s college)
13. Barnard College (women’s college)
14. Bryn Mawr College (women’s college)
15. Wesleyan University
16. Wellesley College (women’s college)
17. University of Richmond
18. Yale-NUS
19. Minerva Schools at KGI
20. St. Lawrence University
21. Bowdoin College

(c)​ Private Research Universities

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)
2. Stanford University
3. Tufts University
4. Johns Hopkins University
5. Vanderbilt University
6. Duke University
 7. Northwestern University
8. University of Notre Dame
9. California Institute of Technology(CalTech)
10. University of Rochester
11. New York University-Abu Dhabi campus

BLACKLIST :They also meet 100% of demonstrated need but have not admitted ESP students for
the past four years. We recommend that you do not apply to any of them.

1. Lehigh University
2. Brandeis University
3. Williams College
4. Connecticut College
5. Carleton College
6. Grinnell College
7. Macalester College
8. Washington University in St. Louis
9. Harvey Mudd College
10. Bates College
11. Colgate University
12. Washington and Lee University
13. Colby College
14. Kenyon College
15. Oberlin College
16. Trinity College
17. Skidmore College
18. Claremont-McKenna College
19. University of Chicago
20. Pitzer College