To illustrate the relative importance of the different types of aid for low- and middle-income students across institution types, figure A shows the average amounts of each type of aid computed using all students as the base (i.e., including unaided students). It shows several patterns: more aid for low-income students, more aid as price goes up, more grant aid for low-income students than middle-income students at most types of institutions, and more loans than grants for middle-income students at public institutions.