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<p>Question: is there actually data out there showing which schools have better FA? Or is this all from anecdotal evidence? Or are we looking at total financial aid given/average grants and loans per student? I don’t know if that’s a fair comparison as there’s not a perfect overlap between student bodies…although seeing such a comparison is probably the best we’ve got, so it would be interesting to see how Duke fares on that. </p>
<p>I’m honestly curious because it would be awesome so be able to plug in numbers and see which schools give better aid. I think Princeton has a calculator or something. Perhaps certain schools are better for low-income while others are better for middle-income. Anecdotally, I know at least three people at Duke who chose Duke over UPenn because of better aid. Admittedly, this was a few years ago. And probably others chose UPenn over Duke but I just didn’t know since I didn’t go to UPenn. 
So, it’s conceivable those three were anomalies. Duke, for me, was quite generous with FA and I’m from a middle-class family. It was considerably cheaper than Michigan was even with Michigan’s $10,000 merit scholarship offer…Hey, and Michigan has a $6B endowment! 
I realize it has many more students…</p>