Making a Smith Education Accessible: Financial Aid

The size and diversity of high school classes is increasing, and so is the pressure on colleges to provide aid to promising students who have potential-but lack the funds-for a liberal arts education.

Fifty-nine percent of Smith students receive need-based college grants: for Ada Comstock Scholars, that figure rises to almost 86 percent.  In FY05, the average Smith grant was $20,926, supported by endowed funds, the Alumnae Fund, and other resources.

Financial aid is a key factor in attracting good students to Smith. In the past five years, Smith has significantly increased support for financial aid to traditional-age undergraduates and Ada Comstock Scholars, including the creation of the STRIDE program.

	I am writing to thank all of you for donating to the Smith College Club of Minnesota Scholarship Fund. I am one of the recipients of this aid and greatly appreciate your generosity...(more)
	Words cannot describe how grateful I am for the valuable gift the Class of 1930 Scholarship Fund has given me through this grant. My name is Misozi and I am from Zambia. Thanks to you I am actually the first person from my father’s side to go to college!...(more)
	Without your grants, I would not have had the opportunity to be pushed so hard and I would not have had the pleasure of realizing that I am capable of accomplishing much more than I had previously thought. I have never worked so hard and been so proud of myself as I am of my work for this last semester...(more)