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Stress in college comes from a bevy of sources. Aside from the obvious academic pressures, there are the prospects of debt, the social anxieties, and the realities of life as an independent adult. To compare campuses, we considered the total price of attendance, the percentage of students receiving financial aid, as well as the average amount of financial aid, the selectivity based on the average SAT or ACT score and the percent of applicants admitted—each weighted 20 percent. Each campus’s on- and off-campus crime record for the last three years, according to U.S. Department of Education, was factored in as a bonus percentage.
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10. Tufts Univer...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 5,196
Total Price per Year: $56,600
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 43 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $26,568
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 47 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 22 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 24
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9. Johns Hopkins...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 5,980
Total Price per Year: $57,442
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 54 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $23,463
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 41 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 19 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 25
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8. Georgetown Un...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 7,590
Total Price per Year: $58,125
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 47 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $27,251
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 47 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 20 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 21
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7. Wesleyan Univ...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 2,882
Total Price per Year: $58,371
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 45 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $31,850
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 55 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 21 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 1
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6. Brown Univers...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 6,367
Total Price per Year: $56,150
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 49 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $27,814
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 50 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 9 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 15
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5. Northwestern ...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 9,660
Total Price per Year: $58,829
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 51 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $23,337
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 49 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 23 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 23
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4. Harvard Unive...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 10,277
Total Price per Year: $56,000
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 47 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $33,276
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 59 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 6 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 13
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3. Columbia Univ...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 8,184
Total Price per Year: $59,208
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 50 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $31,796
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 54 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 10 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 16
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2. University of...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 11,852
Total Price per Year: $57,360
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 50 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $25,952
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 45 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 12 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 9
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1. Washington Un...
Undergraduate Enrollment: 7,303
Total Price per Year: $58,901
Percent of Students Receiving Financial Aid: 50 percent
Average Amount of Financial Aid: $23,963
Average Among of Financial Aid as Percentage of Total Price: 41 percent
Percent of Applicants Admitted: 17 percent
Crime Rank (among top 25): 6
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