Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students
Posted by on June 20, 2011
Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students
The Education Trust
The report demonstrates how much low-income students must stretch to pay for college, even after grant aid is taken into account. It finds that just five of the nation’s nearly 1,200 four-year colleges and universities have student bodies that are at least 30 percent low-income and offer low-income students a reasonable chance at a bachelor’s degree at an relatively affordable cost.
http://www.edtrust.org/sites/edtrust.org/files/PricedOutFINAL2.0_0.pdf
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