6 USA Universities....... ghana Shs Students Can Attend For Free

There are only six universities in the USA where Senior High School students can apply for admissions and when admitted can attend university for free. These colleges are need-blind and full-need for all applicants, including international students. Under a need-blind admissions policy, a college or university will admit students regardless of their ability to pay, and for any student that cannot afford the price tag, the university awards scholarships and other institutional aid to make up the difference. The six universities that Ghanaian students can apply for admissions and when admitted can attend for free are Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Yale University, and Amherst College.

Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (pronounced, DART-məth) is a private, coeducational university, comprising a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences. It is located in Hanover, New Hampshire. There are 39 academic departments offering 56 major programs, although students are free to design special majors or engage in dual majors. In 2008, the most popular majors were economics, government, history, psychological and brain sciences, English, biology, and engineering sciences. Dartmouth describes itself as "highly selective, ranked as the fifteenth "toughest to get into" school by The Princeton Review in 2007, and classified as "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report. For the class of 2014, a record 18,778 students applied for approximately 1,100 places, and 11.5% of applicants were admitted. 95.3% of admitted students were ranked in the top 10% of their high school graduating class. 39.9% of admitted students were valedictorians and 11.9% were salutatorians. The mean SAT scores of admitted students by section were 733 for verbal, 741 for math, and 740 for writing. In 2010, Dartmouth was ranked eleventh among undergraduate programs at national universities by U.S. News & World Report. Dartmouth's alumni are known for their devotion to the College. In 2007, Dartmouth was ranked second only to Princeton University in the U.S. for alumni donation rates by U.S. News & World Report. According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed. As of 2008, Dartmouth has graduated 238 classes of students and has over 60,000 living alumni in a variety of fields.

Harvard University
Harvard University is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the first corporation chartered in the United States and oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The university currently comprises ten separate academic units. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any school in the world, standing at $26 billion as of September 2009. Harvard is consistently ranked at or near the top as a leading academic institution in the world by numerous media and academic rankings. A faculty of about 2,110 professors, lecturers, and instructors serve as of school year 2008-09, with 6,715undergraduate and 12,424 graduate students. Harvard, along with other universities, has been accused of grade inflation. A review of the SAT scores of entering students at Harvard over the past two decades shows that the rise in GPAs has been matched by a linear rise in both verbal and math SAT scores of entering students (even after correcting for the reforming of the test in the mid-1990s), suggesting that the quality of the student body and its motivation have also increased. Harvard College accepted 6.9% of applicants for the class of 2014, a record low for the school's entire history. The number of acceptances was lower for the class of 2013 partially because the university anticipated increased rates of enrollment after announcing a large increase in financial aid in 2008. For the class of 2001, Harvard accepted fewer than 9% of applicants, with a yield of 80%. US News and World Report's" America's Best Colleges 2009" ranked Harvard #2 in selectivity (in a tie with Yale, Princeton and MIT, behind Caltech), and first in rank of the best national universities. Among the best-known graduates of Harvard University are American political leaders John Hancock, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Barack Obama.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea-grant and space-grant university. Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the European university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. MIT enrolled 4,232 undergraduates and 6,152 graduate students for the Fall 2009–2010 term. It employs about 1,009 faculty members. MIT is a large, highly residential, majority graduate/professional research university. The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified as "balanced arts & sciences/professions" with a high graduate coexistence and admissions are characterized as "more selective, lower transfer in". The School of Engineering has been ranked first among graduate and undergraduate programs by U.S. News & World Report since first published results in 1994. MIT was ranked 1st internationally in Technology by the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. A 1995 National Research Council study of US research universities ranked MIT first in "reputation" and fourth in "citations and faculty awards" and a 2005 study found MIT to be the 4th most preferred college among undergraduate applicants. Many of MIT's over 110,000 alumni and alumnae have had considerable success in scientific research, public service, education, and business. Twenty-five MIT alumni have won the Nobel Prize, forty-four have been selected as Rhodes Scholars, and fifty-five have been selected as Marshall Scholars. MIT alumni in international politics include British Foreign Minister David Miliband, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi.

Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896. Princeton has six undergraduate residential colleges, each housing approximately 500 freshmen, sophomores, some juniors and seniors, and a handful of junior and senior resident advisers. Undergraduate students at Princeton benefit from the resources of a world-class research institution that is simultaneously dedicated to undergraduate teaching. Princeton faculty have a reputation for balancing excellence in their respective fields with a dedication to their students as classroom instructors and as advisors of independent work. Princeton is one of the most selective colleges in the United States, admitting only 8% of undergraduate applicants in 2010. In 2001, expanding on earlier reforms, Princeton was the first university to eliminate loans for all students who qualify for aid. U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review both cite Princeton as the university that has the fewest of graduates with debt even though 60% of incoming students are on some type of financial aid. The Office of Financial Aid estimates that Princeton seniors on aid will graduate with an average indebtedness of $2,360, compared to the national average of about $20,000. From 2001 to 2008, Princeton University was ranked first among national universities by U.S. News & World Report (USNWR). After one year at second place in 2009, Princeton returned to the number one spot in 2010, sharing that honor with Harvard University. It has been ranked eighth among world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, fifth among top 50 for Natural Sciences by THES, and 8th among world universities by THES - QS World University Rankings. This last source also ranked the university third in North America, behind Harvard and Yale. In the "America's Best Colleges" rankings by Forbes in 2008, Princeton University was ranked first among all national colleges and universities. The Forbes ranking also takes into consideration national awards won by students and faculty, as well as number of alumni in the 2008 "Who's Who in America" register. Princeton University has been and is home to a renowned group of scholars, scientists, writers, chief justices, and statesmen who include four United States presidents, two of whom graduated from the university. James Madison and Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton, Grover Cleveland was not an alumnus but served as a trustee, Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth; for several years while he spent his retirement in the town of Princeton, and John F. Kennedy spent his freshman fall at the university before leaving due to illness and later transferring to Harvard College. Additionally, First Lady Michelle Obama graduated from Princeton.

Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five U.S. presidents, seventeen U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreign heads of state. For the Class of 2013, Yale accepted 1,951 students out of 26,000 total applications, hitting a University record-low acceptance of 7.5%. Yale accepted 742 out of 5,556 early applicants and 1,209 out of 20,444 regular applicants. Yale commits to meet the full demonstrated financial need of all applicants, and more than 40% of Yale students receive financial assistance. Most financial aid is in the form of grants and scholarships that do not need to be paid back to the University, and the average scholarship for the 2006–2007 school year was $26,900. Half of all Yale undergraduates are women, more than 30% are minorities, and 8% are international students. Yale has produced alumni distinguished in their respective fields. Among the most well known are U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; current Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas; U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dean Acheson; Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry; recent Nobel Laureates Paul Krugman, Edmund Phelps, John Bennett Fenn, Raymond Davis Jr., George Akerlof and Thomas A. Steitz

Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975. Amherst has been frequently ranked as the top liberal arts college in the United States by U.S. News and World Report,[2] and classified as a most selective institution by the Carnegie Foundation. Since the inception of the U.S. News & World Report rankings, Amherst College has been ranked at least ten times as the first overall amongst 266 liberal arts colleges in the United States, and is currently ranked second, behind Williams. Amherst ranks ninth in a 2004 Wall Street Journal survey of the "feeder schools" to the top fifteen business, law, and medical schools in the country. According to The Princeton Review, Amherst ranks in the Top 20 among all colleges and universities in the nation for "Students Satisfied With Financial Aid," "School Runs Like Butter," and "Top 10 Best Value Private Schools." Amherst's annual admittance rates have repeatedly remained lower than those of other selective U.S. universities and liberal arts colleges like Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and Williams College.

In 2008, Amherst College received 7,745 applications and admitted 1,096 for an overall acceptance rate of 14.2 percent, an all-time low. For the class of 2012, the middle 50 percent of admitted students received an SAT score of 1340-1560 (Critical Reading and Math only), an ACT composite score of 30-35, and about 89 percent of admitted students were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. In 2010, Amherst College saw a 5 percent increase in the number of applicants from 2009, and set a new admissions record when it received an unprecedented 8,088 applications. 1,226 students were admitted for a near record low admittance rate of 15.2 percent, compared to 16.0 percent in 2009.