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Lowest-Income Students Need More Pell Aid, Authors of New Report Find
05 May 08 04:35 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To help low-income students attend college, larger Pell Grants should be awarded to the most “financially needy” college students, according to a new report (“ Window of Opportunity: Targeting Federal Grant Aid to Students With the Lowest Incomes ”). Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, credit crunch, EFC, expected family contribution, financial aid, grants, IHEP, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Low-Income Students, Need-Based Aid, NextStudent, Pell Grant, Pell Grants, Sen. Edward Kennedy, student loans, U.S. Senate

Harvard’s Aid to Middle-Class Families a Signal for Change
03 January 08 03:03 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In December Harvard University announced it would begin offering increased financial aid to students of middle and upper-middle class families. Those families earning between $120,000 and $180,000 will only have to pay about 10 percent of their income, Read More...

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Amherst Becomes Third College to Eliminate Student Loans From Financial Aid Packages
25 July 07 03:46 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a press release issued last Thursday, Amherst College announced that it would eliminate all loans from student financial aid packages, replacing them with grants—which do not need to be repaid—beginning with the 2008–09 academic year (“ Amherst College Read More...

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More Need-Based Aid
08 March 07 09:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

According to a March 6, 2007 article by Elia Powers titled “Tilting Toward Need-Based Aid,” that appeared in Inside Higher Ed , “ At a time when private colleges are often criticized for spending too much of their financial aid resources trying to attract Read More...

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