Needs-met, and no-loan (or low loan), schools are not limited to Stanford and Harvard anymore either. It’s a growing group of schools and it’s high time USC moved towards it. Kudos to them. We had decent need and my oldest, who was a Presidential Scholar, chose a different university which was markedly cheaper (after FA) even though it offered only needs-based aid.
Bowdoin, Wash U, Vanderbilt, Duke, the ivies, Rice, Amhert, Colby, U Chicago etc al are generous at meeting need with no or low (student only, not parent) loans. It’s nice to see USC move in that direction for lower-income families.