How to avoid the finaid "trap"?

<p>The collegeboard lists this information for each college - here for example is the financial aid information for Dartmouth:
<a href="http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3300&profileId=2%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3300&profileId=2&lt;/a>
or you can look at the data sets for each college- here once again is the most recent data set for Dartmouth- you have to scroll down to get the part about financial aid:
<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eoir/pdfs/cds2006-2007.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/cds2006-2007.pdf&lt;/a>,
or you can contact the financial aid offices at each college your D is considering.</p>