Is Brown as generous with financial aid as other Ivies?

The short answer is Brown tends to be worse than typical for Ivies. More detailed stats are below, based on students in fed database. I listed median of past 3 years.

Average net price for students receiving grant aid
Brown – $27k
Penn – $26k
Cornell – $26k
Columbia – $21k
Yale – $21k
Princeton – $20k
Dartmouth – $19k
Harvard – $18k

Average cost for students with $75k to $110k income
Penn – $23k
Brown – $20k
Cornell – $20k
Dartmouth – $17k
Columbia – $15k
Harvard – $14k
Princeton – $14k
Yale – $14k

Average cost for students with $48k to $75k income
Penn – $11k
Brown – $8k
Cornell – $8k
Princeton – $7k
Dartmouth – $6k
Columbia – $5k
Yale – $5k
Harvard – $2k

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