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Harvard College Financial Aid (need-blind, meets full demonstrated need)

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

United StatesScholarshipbachelorOpen to Mongolian citizens

Harvard gives international applicants the same need-blind admission and need-based aid as U.S. citizens, meeting 100% of demonstrated need with grants rather than loans, so a qualifying Mongolian family could pay little to nothing.

Tuition55% off tuitionMeans-tested, not a flat figure. Families with income under $200,000 (and typical assets) have the full cost of tuition covered; under $100,000, the family is not expected to contribute anything, per the 2025-26 policy on this page.
Living costNot confirmedCovered up to demonstrated need as part of the same grant package; no separate international living-cost figure published on the page fetched.
IntakesSeptember
Proof of funds for the visaNot confirmed

What the scholarship covers

Grant-based; no loan is required (a student may elect to borrow to cover the work-contribution portion). 55% of undergraduates receive need-based Harvard scholarships; this is a campus-wide figure, not international-specific.

What you need

  • Admission as a first-year applicant to Harvard College; no separate academic bar for the aid itself beyond being admitted.
  • CSS Profile (or an alternate process if the fee is unaffordable / the student's country's payments can't be processed by College Board)
  • Common App
  • Secondary school transcripts
  • SAT or ACT scores are required for the 2026-27 application cycle (fall 2027 entry), reinstated from the Class of 2029 policy; substitution only if the tests are genuinely inaccessible to the applicant.
  • If parents file a tax return in their own country, that is submitted in place of a U.S. tax form.

Things to know

Page states foreign students 'have the same access to financial aid funding as U.S. citizens.' Open to all nationalities; no country exclusions found.

Core aid policy (same access as U.S. citizens, meets full need, grant not loan) is confirmed from Harvard's own fact sheet. Essay prompts, exact ED/RD dates, English-test minimums, and visa process were not independently re-confirmed from an official page this session (WebFetch access was exhausted) -- verify dates directly with Harvard admissions before quoting to a family. Common App's fraud policy and any Harvard-specific AI-essay statement apply; see top-notes.md.

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