<p>To be sure, no two formulae are exactly alike, and anyone needful of financial aid is well advised to compare packages before selecting one school over another.</p>
<p>But the USNews chart is useful, nonetheless, to show what average aid packages are at each school, and what fraction of the admitted students get aid.</p>
<p>It looks like some schools advertising huge aid packages don’t go out of their way to recruit needy applicants, or at least are careful not to admit too many of them!</p>