How good is the financial aid at Duke?

bluedog
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:48:39 +0000

Found this:

[Project on Student Debt: What’s the Bottom Line?](http://www.projectonstudentdebt.org/ncoa_chart.php?sort=b.range_3)

Don’t know how sound their methodology is, but here it is:

Net cost amounts based on Income level;
$20,000 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $120,000 $160,000 $200,000

UPenn $2,500 / $5,644 /$13,394 / $19,195 / $35,016 /$53,033 / $53,250

Duke $3,700 /$3,700 /$13,861 / $20,717 / $38,673 /$53,390 /$53,390

UPenn advantage (+) or disadvantage (-) in dollar amounts
$1,200 / -$1,944 / $467 / $1522 / $3657 / $357 / $140

as percentage of income
6.0% / -4.9% / 0.8% / 1.9% / 3.0% / 0.22% / 0.0074%

Looks pretty similar to me…Based on those results, looks like UPenn is better with super low income, Duke is better with low middle, Penn is ever so slightly better with middle, Penn is better with upper middle, and they are the same with super upper income. But the differences really aren’t that stark…Thought it was interesting.

Yale and Harvard destroy everybody according to this data (even Stanford and Princeton). I’ve heard people get quite good packages from Stanford and Princeton so perhaps this data isn’t that reliable…