No, Yale College does not offer merit nor athletic scholarships. Our financial aid counselors assess a financial need through a holistic review process that considers a wide range of factors including income, assets, family size, and unique circumstances.
Yes, financial aid is available to all students at Yale College regardless of citizenship or immigration status.
The process of applying for Yale financial aid, including forms and documents required, differs based on the type of student you are. To learn more, visit Apply for Aid
Deadlines to complete your financial aid application can be found under the appropriate Apply for Aid section.
Yes. For prospective students, our goal is to provide you with a decision about financial aid at the time that you are admitted. Families whose aid applications are incomplete when admissions decisions are released are still eligible for financial aid, and offers will not be reduced because of late submission. Financial aid counselors work to ensure every admitted student has a financial aid offer prior to the admissions reply deadline if an aid application becomes complete.
For continuing Yale students, if you miss the deadline, you are still eligible to apply for financial aid, and offers will not be reduced because of late submission. Please work to complete your aid application as soon as possible.
Please email undergrad.fa@yale.edu letting us know you are no longer interested in applying for financial aid so we can update your status in our system accordingly.
Please email undergrad.fa@yale.edu letting us know so we can update your financial aid status in our system accordingly.
If you are a prospective student, log into your Yale Admissions Status Portal. Students who expressed interest in applying for financial aid when completing their application for admission will see a Financial Aid checklist that will list required documents.
If you are a current Yale student, log into YaleHub and choose “Financial Aid.” Once the dropdown appears, click “Overview” to view the list of required documents. Please make sure you are viewing the appropriate academic year, which will be located in the top right corner of the page.
Yales preferred submission method is through IDOC, which is accessible after submitting the CSS Profile.
IDOC may ask for documentation to complete your financial aid application, but it is most important to view your Yale Financial Aid checklist to complete your financial aid application.
Yale policy and (in most cases) federal regulations require parents to submit their financial information to be considered in the determination of a student’s financial aid eligibility. The financial aid process evaluates a family’s ability to pay for educational costs, not a family’s willingness to contribute, and a parents refusal to pay would not be a sufficient reason to petition for independent student status. In very rare cases, based on a student’s documented petition, an exception may be made to this requirement to reflect a student’s continuing self-supporting status or to consider a student’s exceptional situation that may preclude the submission of parental information.
As documents are received, checklist items may be changed or waived. Most frequently, information reported on the CSS profile will affect the documents that appear on the checklist. If you have questions, contact our office for additional clarification and support.
If you submitted a CSS Profile Waiver Request for your noncustodial parent, noncustodial requirements will remain in a missing status until our committee reviews your waiver request.
If your waiver request is approved, we will waive the appropriate noncustodial requirements.
If your waiver request is denied, we will notify you, and noncustodial requirements will remain in a missing status until received by our office.
The financial aid committee reviews waiver requests in the order they are received. If additional information is needed, we will contact you directly.
The College Board automatically grants CSS Profile fee waivers to U.S. applicants whose families earn up to $100,000 per year. These waivers apply to both custodial and noncustodial parents. Students are notified of their eligibility for an automatic fee waiver while completing the CSS Profile. For additional details, please refer to the CSS Profile’s fee waiver information.
Eligible applicants who do not receive an automatic waiver will be contacted by our office starting in mid-November (for Early Action applicants) with instructions on how to request a CSS Profile fee payment code using Yale’s request form.
Our office will begin reviewing requests in November for Early Action applicants and in February for those applying under Regular Decision. For international applicants, submission of the CSS Profile is not required for the admissions nor financial aid evaluation processes, unless requested by our office.
For information about waiving your Yale admissions application fee, visit admissions.yale.edu/fee-waiver.
For prospective students, if you completed your aid application by the deadline for the round you applied, your financial aid offer will be provided with your admissions decision. If you completed your aid application after the deadline, we will work as quickly as we can to provide your offer letter to you.
For continuing Yale students, the first round of offer letters will be sent out beginning late May/early June for those students who completed their application by the deadline. If you completed your aid application after the deadline, we will work as quickly as we can to provide your offer letter to you.
For students on financial aid, outside merit scholarships may reduce or replace a student’s Student Share. Amounts that exceed the total Student Share reduce Yale Scholarship.
Some merit scholarships, such as the Gates Millennium Scholarship and NCAA Grant, may also cover the cost of Yale Health Hospitalization & Specialty Care coverage. If allowed by the awarding agency, a merit scholarship may also cover the cost of a computer for incoming students whose outside aid exceeds the Student Share.
Learn more about Yale’s Outside Scholarship/Resources Policy.
The financial aid committee will review a financial aid offer if a family’s financial circumstances have changed significantly since applying for aid, or if there is additional information that was not included on the original application. Common examples include unemployment, uninsured medical expenses, and divorce/separation.
For information on the review process, including required forms and documentation, see Request for Review.
Financial Aid to support the cost of Yale Health/Hospitalization Specialty Coverage is offered for our highest need students and international citizens and will be included in qualifying student’s offers.
Please visit the Year or Term Abroad webpage for more information on what happens to a financial aid offer when studying abroad.
When a student moves off-campus, the amount of financial aid they receive does not change, but the charges on their bill are significantly reduced. When living off-campus, a student is not billed for on-campus housing and on-campus meals. An off-campus meal plan can be selected at a reduced cost or a meal plan can be opted-out of entirely. Learn more about meal plan options on Yale Hospitality’s webpage.
The financial aid amount a student receives will still be based on the total estimated cost of attendance, which includes housing and food, even though these items are no longer billed by Yale. Similar expenses, such as rent, utilities, and groceries, will still be incurred when living off-campus, which is why these costs are still considered.
All financial aid a student is eligible for will be applied to YalePay, and if the financial aid exceeds the billed charges, a credit will be available to assist with the above mentioned off-campus expenses. If financial aid does not exceed the charges in YalePay, the balance owed must be paid and any off-campus expenses are the responsibility of the family.
If you take a leave of absence, your financial aid will be reduced by the same percentage as your charges for tuition, housing and food. Review the Financial Services section of the Undergraduate Regulations to learn more.
Undergraduate Financial Aid does not provide scholarship aid for Yale Summer Session courses. However, Yale College students enrolling in these courses may be eligible for Yale Summer Session financial assistance, or financial aid from other sources, to help defray tuition costs.
Information about Summer Pell can be found at Summer Aid.
Please email undergrad.fa@yale.edu and be sure to include your full name, date of birth and Yale Student ID. Records will be shared via email.