Just when it seems that admissions to the Ivy League couldn’t get any more competitive, it looks like top English students are beginning to look across the Atlantic for educational opportunities. Why? The simple answer appears to be the superior financial aid packages being offered by the best U.S. schools.
With the decline in public support [...]
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There’s nothing terribly new in the source article for this note, but it’s a worthy review of the state of play in Washington regarding the endowment payment controversy that is now impacting elite colleges and universities. Certainly, pressure from the Senate has had a significant role in increasing the flow of funds from the largest [...]
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High school students in the United Kingdom face similar concerns regarding costs as do their peers in the United States. Many select schools close to home just to minimize the overall price of their higher education. This raises special concerns for some disciplines like physics which are not generally taught at regional colleges and universities.
Of [...]
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The on-campus battle over file sharing is really starting to get ugly. Apparently Congress has included in the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 some language that requires universities to
develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to [...]
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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill requiring the Department of Education to publish a list of America’s most expensive colleges. In addition, the same bill increases the maximum size of the popular Pell grant from $5800 to $9000 per year. Another interesting provision limits Federal grants to states that significantly cut back [...]
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While it’s a good thing that those few elite colleges and universities with the highest endowment per student have liberalized the grants portion of financial aid packages for students from upper-middle class families, we’re really no closer to solving the college affordability crisis than we were before. As we mentioned yesterday, the colleges and universities [...]
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In spite of the tone of some articles, there’s going to be a much smaller national impact than people realize of recent financial aid changes announced at a few Ivy League schools. We’ve already suggested that there’s a real chance of a backlash here with hopeful parents being handed a nasty surprise when they face [...]
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Have a look at this insightful article in the University of Michigan student paper. People sometimes have a problem distinguishing how much a college education costs to deliver versus how much students pay for it. In general the costs significantly exceed the price paid, although the magnitude of the difference and the source of that [...]
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I missed this earlier, but Dartmouth College recently announced that it is extending its policy of need-blind admissions to international students. This means that the admit/deny decision will be made without consideration of the student’s ability to pay and further implies that aid packaging will then be based on the demonstrated ability of that student [...]
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Clearly, millions of American college and university students have not been visiting this web site over the last month because a recent poll carried out by Widmeyer Communications shows that less than a quarter of them know about the changes announced by elite universities that limit loan requirements in aid packages. This has been [...]
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