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Just a fun statistic for library access not too serious!

Rank	University	Libraries per 1,000 students
1	Caltech	1.7
2	Princeton	1.18
3	Harvard	1.11
4	Dartmouth	0.85
5	Yale	0.77
6	Cornell	0.75
7	Columbia	0.66
8	Vanderbilt	0.65
9	Penn	0.65
10	Brown	0.63
11	Stanford	0.6
12	MIT	0.42
13	Notre Dame	0.4
14	UC Berkeley	0.4
15	Duke	0.4
16	UChicago	0.38
17	Northwestern	0.25
18	UCLA	0.2
19	Johns Hopkins	0.2
20	Rice	0.1

Source: U.S. Department of Education (NCES/IPEDS)

Some of these schools had waay more students than I thought

Rank	University	Total Enrollment (Grad + Undergrad)
1	UCLA	~48,000
2	UC Berkeley	~45,700
3	Columbia	~36,600
4	Cornell	~26,300
5	Penn	~25,000
6	Harvard	~24,500
7	Northwestern	~23,200
8	Johns Hopkins	~22,700
9	Stanford	~18,500
10	Duke	~17,200
11	Yale	~15,600
12	Carnegie Mellon	~14,800
13	University of Chicago	~14,700
14	WashU	~14,500
15	MIT	~11,900
16	Brown	~11,400
17	Vanderbilt	~10,700
18	Notre Dame	~9,000
19	Princeton	~8,900
20	Rice	~8,700
21	Dartmouth	~6,700
22	Caltech	~2,400

School	Free Everything (full Cost of Attendance)	Free Tuition	Counts Home Equity?	Effective
Princeton	≤ $150,000	≤ $250,000	No	2025-26
MIT	≤ $100,000	≤ $200,000	No	2025-26
Harvard	≤ $100,000	≤ $200,000	No	2025-26
Yale	≤ $100,000	≤ $200,000	Yes	2026-27
Stanford	≤ $100,000	≤ $150,000	No	current
Johns Hopkins	≤ $100,000	≤ $200,000	n/a (no-loan)	2026-27
Dartmouth	≤ $125,000 (zero parent contribution)	≤ $175,000	Yes	2026-27
Penn	≤ $75,000	≤ $200,000	No	2025-26
Cornell	≤ $75,000	≤ $125,000	Yes	2026-27
Caltech	≤ $100,000	≤ $200,000	Info varies (CSS)	current
Columbia	≤ $66,000 (zero parent contribution)	≤ $150,000	Yes	current
Notre Dame	≤ $60,000	≤ $150,000	n/a (no-loan)	2026-27
Brown	≤ $60,000	≤ $125,000	No	current
UChicago	≤ $60,000 (→ $125,000 fall 2027)	≤ $125,000 (→ $250,000 fall 2027)	Info varies	current / 2027
Rice	Full need met	≤ $140,000 (→ $200,000 fall 2027)	No	current / 2027
Emory	Full need met	≤ $200,000	Info varies	current
Boston University	≤ $75,000	≤ $200,000 (total cost capped at $20K)	Info varies (CSS)	2026-27
Duke	Full need met	≤ $150,000 (NC/SC residents only)	Info varies	current
Vanderbilt	Full need met, no-loan	≤ $150,000	No	current
WashU	Full need met, no-loan	No published cutoff	No	current
Northwestern	≤ $70,000	≤ $150,000	Yes	current
USC	Full need met	≤ $80,000	No (excluded)	current
NYU	Full need met (NY campus)	≤ $100,000	Info varies (CSS)	current
UC Berkeley	CA residents: aid scales with need	CA residents ≤ ~$80,000 (most to $100K pay $0 tuition)	Info varies	current
UCLA	CA residents: aid scales with need	CA residents ≤ ~$80,000 (most to $100K pay $0 tuition)	Info varies	current
Swarthmore	Full need met, no-loan	≤ $200,000	Info varies	2027-28
Wellesley	Full need met, no-loan	≤ $150,000	Info varies	2026-27
Amherst	Full need met, no-loan	< $141,000	Yes	current
Williams	Full need met, no-loan	≤ $200,000	Info varies	current
Pomona	Full need met, no-loan	No published cutoff	Info varies	current
Bowdoin	Full need met, no-loan	No published cutoff	Info varies	current

I can clarify anything in the comments and will fix anything if wrong! Hope this is very helpful!

IMPORTANT - READ FIRST: These thresholds are essentially the colleges' advertising slogans. ASSETS matter as much as income, and this list is NO substitute for the Net Price Calculator (NPC). If you're a domestic applicant, run the NPC on each college's financial-aid website - with a parent - to get a real need-based estimate BEFORE you apply. And know the NPC's limits: it's often wrong for any family with "special circumstances," because it almost never asks about them. NPCs can be wrong for complex finances (divorce, or owning a business / rental / farm, especially if the NPC doesn't ask) - if that's you, call the financial aid office. And publics usually give out-of-state students little need-based aid (though some offer big merit scholarships); privates don't differ in-state vs. out. Start by running NPCs at your in-state publics.

Order	School	Class of 2030	Class of 2029
1	Caltech	3.75%	3.79%
2	Stanford	TBA	3.80%
3	Harvard	TBA	4.18%
4	Princeton	TBA	4.42%
5	University of Chicago	TBA	4.48%
6	MIT	4.58%	4.56%
7	Yale	4.24%	4.75%
8	University of Pennsylvania	5.84%	4.92%
9	Columbia	4.23%	4.94%
10	Duke	4.73%	5.24%
11	Vanderbilt	~4.08%	5.38%
12	Northeastern (sus)	TBA	5.62%
13	Dartmouth	5.84%	6.02%
14	Johns Hopkins	TBA	6.11%
15	Brown	5.61%	6.34%
16	Bowdoin	6.53%	6.81%
17	Pomona	TBA	7.14%
18	Northwestern	~7.00%	7.40%
19	Swarthmore	7.44%	7.52%
20	Amherst	6.78%	7.72%
21	Colby	8.00%	8.00%
22	Rice	7.73%	8.01%
23	Cornell	TBA	8.38%
24	Williams	7.48%	8.61%
25	NYU	TBA	9.06%
26	Notre Dame	9.00%	9.38%
27	UCLA (overall)	10.84%	9.41%
28	Claremont McKenna	TBA	9.44%
29	Barnard	TBA	10.05%
30	Emory (overall)	12.29%	10.30%

A couple of notes on method: I ranked by 2029 because ~40% of the 2030 figures are still TBA, so ranking on 2030 alone would scramble the order and drop schools that haven't reported yet. I also used common data sets and most recent data to be most accurate. FYI acceptance rates do not equal to the quality of education you are getting so only view this as informational.