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<p>regardless of how the earlham determines and meets need, the degree to which it discounts tuition for a typical student is somewhat eye-opening. </p>
<p>in 08-09, earlhams institutional grant aid spending totaled a rather high $14836 per enrolled student. whats more impressive is that this $14836 came off of a total cost of ‘only’ $40844, resulting in an average student expenditure (before things like stafford loans) of just over $26000 per year. not average student receiving aid. average student.</p>
<p>i cant think of a single private school (excluding the notable exceptions like cooper union) with a midrange sat score over 1200 that can match that $26000 figure. brown, for example, came in just under $36000 by the same metric for the year in question (08-09).</p>