3. Columbia University in the City of New York

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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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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...

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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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