Academics / Highly Competitive "No Loan" Colleges and Universities

The primary mission of ARCH is to help students achieve admission to competitive universities around the country, be able to afford those universities, and give those students the necessary skills to thrive at a competitive university.

The United States has over 5,000 colleges and universities. The Phoenix Union High School District has a page highlighting the Most Generous Colleges and Universities. The list below takes the detailed list of schools from that page and narrows them to schools that have taken significant steps to shift away from offering loans; in other words, these schools provide generous financial aid in ways that will help most students avoid debt.

Many of the schools below also appeared in an October 2022 article on CNBC.

Each school's website is linked below. Check for additional schools and additional updated information from other sources, such as CollegeBoard.

These schools are highly competitive (accept less than 25% of applicants):

School Website (Click Below)	Location (Click for Map) / Distance from Cesar Chavez High School	Link to College Board (Click Below)
Amherst College	Amherst, Massachusetts / 2,585 miles	Amherst College
Bowdoin College	Brunswick, Maine / 2,779 miles	Bowdoin College
Brown University	Providence, Rhode Island / 2,618 miles	Brown University
California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, California / 371 miles	California Institute of Technology
Colby College	Waterville, Maine / 2,798 miles	Colby College
Colgate University	Hamilton, New York / 2,391 miles	Colgate University
Columbia University	New York, New York / 2,445 miles	Columbia University
Cornell University	Ithaca, New York / 2,346 miles	Cornell University
Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire / 2,633 miles	Dartmouth College
Davidson College	Davidson, North Carolina / 2,071 miles	Davidson College
Duke University	Durham, North Carolina / 2,229 miles	Duke University
Emory University	Atlanta, Georgia / 1,819 miles	Emory University
Grinnell College	Grinnell, Iowa / 1,461 miles	Grinnell College
Harvard University	Cambridge, Massachusetts / 2,639 miles	Harvard College
Haverford College	Haverford, Pennsylvania / 2,339 miles	Haverford College
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, Maryland / 2,297 miles	Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts / 2,642 miles	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois / 1,772 miles	Northwestern University
Pomona College	Claremont, California / 344 miles	Pomona College
Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey / 2,379 miles	Princeton University
Rice University	Houston, Texas / 1,178 miles	Rice University
Stanford University	Stanford, California / 731 miles	Stanford University
Swarthmore College	Swarthmore, Pennsylvania / 2,348 miles	Swarthmore College
Tufts University	Medford, Massachusetts / 2,648 miles	Tufts University
University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois / 1,758 miles	University of Chicago
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, North Carolina / 2,151 miles	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / 2,348 miles	University of Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt University	Nashville, Tennessee / 1,640 miles	Vanderbilt University
Vassar College	Poughkeepsie, New York / 2,465 miles	Vassar College
Washington and Lee University	Lexington, Virginia / 2,120 miles	Washington and Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis, Missouri / 1,458 miles	Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan University	Middletown, Connecticut / 2,537 miles	Wesleyan University
Williams College	Williamstown, Massachusetts / 2,526 miles	Williams College
Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut / 2,518 miles	Yale University