<p>Excellent post. Another of my favorite spreadsheets shows one school per column with the following rows: </p>
<p>Tuition, Room, Board, Fees, Other Expenses, TOTAL EXPENSES, </p>
<p>Academic Merit Grant, Talent Merit Grant, Need-based Grant, TOTAL OFFSETS, </p>
<p>NET COST</p>
<p>Schools that charge very dissimilar tuition amounts can end up looking pretty equal. </p>
<p>Laboring under the delusion that organizing all the data will give us control over the chaos since 1975.</p>