Based on personal experience, I have worked with all t5 FA offices for my kids in the past few years.
P is the real No 1 school in the nation, it focuses most resources on the undergraduate students, no school can beat that! H,M,S,Y allocate a big amount of funds to graduate schools.
P is also the most generous for middle class families with 2-W2s. Students gets better aid offers than what they claim to the public. One example, even before the expanded FA announcement this week, first 150k savings was excluded toward the family contributions.
如果把 P 比做一个人的话， 个人觉得算是言而有信的君子。
H on the hand, is very fake, they don't care about middle class students。 H claims more but commit way less. FA is a trap, it's all about making H "looks good". 如果把H拟人话, 他属于把又当又立玩得炉火纯青的翘楚。
Y, M, S 在 P和 H之间。 Y 属于有钱并且很大方的学校， 抢人的时候， match P的FA 不眨眼。
一家之言，maybe biased due to limited personal experience。
仅就助学金方面讨论，无意褒贬任何学校，不喜欢的请绕道。
