BUT (a big but!) @ucbalumnus, as has been repeatedly and exhaustively explained to you on other threads where Earlham was mentioned… the college cost calculator misses significant aspects of Earlham’s aid policies, and should not be considered as a “final” number. In most cases, it is not remotely close to the final number… especially for lower-income families. Many of my lower- and middle-income students attend Earlham at very-low/no cost. And loans for low-income students are capped in Earlham financial packages at a very low ceiling.
Also – Earlham includes money for research, guarantees every student a PAID internship, and includes foreign study as well as many other opportunities that are necessary for students to do, these days, but poor students don’t have access to at most schools.
Why DO you hop on every Earlham thread repeating the same flawed information? You claim that you have no personal knowledge of the school, and that you have no axe to grind, but you keep speaking about the school without having knowledge of it, and keep ignoring the updated information from people who actually know a lot about it.
I am an education professional in Indiana. I mentor students applying to elite colleges. Many of my former students have gone to Earlham. I even currently have a son at Earlham. I know the school well, and you are misleading students with your posts.
I would have been very upset if my students, lacking a mentor, had turned to College Confidential for guidance and got misinformed by someone who was advising them and discouraging them from applying to a school that was a good fit.
This is important and these kids are looking for guidance… you are going to cause someone to give up on good opportunities because you keep giving flawed advice about a school that you have admitted you know nothing about.
Why do you keep doing this? Talk about schools you KNOW about, and let others talk about the ones you don’t know about. That is supposed to be the beauty of a crowd-forum like this. Everyone puts in the piece they know about and together we create a good resource. If we don’t really know a school and we give information that is incomplete, or just plain wrong, because we don’t know, it undermines the goal of this resource. 
That ain’t cool, man! These people are here for help!