Absolutely! But many of Harvard&#x27;s peer institutions have sticker prices just as high without the same level of financial aid. I&#x27;d say a fairer metric to use for comparison is what fraction of people have sufficiently large financial aid packages that they pay less than $X where X is some reasonable value (maybe the median cost of in-state tuition at flagship state schools?).<p>Another thing to watch out for is schools that say &quot;the MSRP is $50k but we gave you $30k in aid so it&#x27;s really $20k&quot; when that $30k is <i>loans</i>, not <i>grants</i>. Harvard doesn&#x27;t use loans (and very few students take them out), but as you go down a few tiers in financial aid that changes rapidly.