<p>"Kiplinger.com found ten private colleges, including three Ivy League institutions that provided enough financial aid to get their students across the finish line for around $6,000well below the national average of $28,100."</p>
<p>10</a> Top Private Colleges With the Lowest Student Graduating Debt - Kiplinger</p>
<p>Kiplinger often has interesting lists.
What I find enlightening is although the COA for those schools is $54,000 or so, at most of them less than 50% of students needed to borrow ANY money.</p>
<p>Hmmm. You could say just look for the most difficult to get into.</p>
<p>I was thrilled to see Berea #2 on this list:</p>
<p>[10</a> Top Private Colleges With the Lowest Student Graduating Debt - Kiplinger](<a href=“http://kiplinger.com/slideshow/lowest-debt-private-colleges/3.html]10”>http://kiplinger.com/slideshow/lowest-debt-private-colleges/3.html)</p>
<p>It was one of the schools I wanted to go to myself way back when. It is designed for kids with very little of their own means (including internationals) to be able to get a college education. </p>
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<p>It is very unsung on CC and I am glad to see Kiplinger recognizes its value.</p>
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<p>Yes, you have the equation: </p>
<p>Large proportion of the student body wealthy enough to afford a 60k COA + large endowment which permits generous FA = low debt</p>
<p>I don’t think this is much a surprise for most CC veterans, the larger shock might be the absence of S in the list since it has FA policies similar to HYP.</p>
<p>3 of the 10 are in the Claremont College Consortium? 4 of the 10 are within 10 miles of each other?[CalTech is close to the Claremont group].
Hmmmmm…</p>
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<p>My son has applied…he will hear earlier than April but not sure how much earlier. We were told when we visited that last year’s acceptance rate was 13%. Fingers crossed :)</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure the borrow figure refers to loans vs. grants and not the percentage of people that have financial aid. Around 60% of Yale students are on financial aid, not 28%.</p>
<p>I want to see it</p>
<p>If you look at the “sortable rankings,” and sort by average debt upon graduation the top 10 private universities with the lowest student graduating debt are: </p>
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<li>Princeton- $5,225</li>
<li>Yale- $9,254</li>
<li>Harvard- $10,102</li>
<li>CIT- $10,760</li>
<li>BYU- $13,354</li>
<li>Rice- $13,944</li>
<li>Stanford- $14,058</li>
<li>SIT- $14,113</li>
<li>MIT- $15,228</li>
<li>UPenn- $17,013</li>
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<p>The top 10 LACs are:
<p>Their best value slideshows and ranking systems seem really subjective, like number 2 and 5 for the LAC list has $23,000+ in average debt at graduation… That’s a good value?</p>
<p>haha the CIT counselour told us this :)</p>