<p>Thanks Padre13 for your insight. While I agree that analyses based on the published data can be helpful, the reliability of the data and whether it is a true comparison of apples with apples will affect the validity of the conclusions. The statistics Winterset cited was using data from different years for different schools, for example the numbers for SPS was apparently for '09-'10 but numbers for Andover was last year’s (I am not familiar with others schools so I don’t know what year theirs are). Secondly, the average amount of grants for SPS was for boarding students (it’s an all boarder school) while other schools are an overall average including both boarders and day students (it makes a big difference. For example, average grant for boarder at Andover is $35,200 while for day students it’s $25,100). Thirdly, the amount of grants have a lot to do with the tuition charged. The comparison of absolute amounts in different schools doesn’t make much sense. It’s true that not all data are available, but that’s why we can’t conduct all the analysis we would like to. </p>
<p>I would go directly to each of the top schools’ websites (there are not that many) and get the information you need from there. First hand data is more reliable.</p>