Word: aid
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...fall 1998 aid increase--made after a wave of similar increases in aid at Princeton, Yale, Stanford and MIT--allowed students to apply an extra $2,000 in Harvard grants toward reducing their annual "self-help" contribution--meaning loans and job income, which make up a substantial portion of aid. Students could choose whether to apply these grants to loans, job requirements or both...
Roughly two-thirds of students receiving aid used this money to reduce loans, according to Irons. Yet the average debt is only down slightly from the Class of 1999's average debt...
Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists...
Only a small number of Harvard students have significant problems with their loans, according to Irons. The exit interviews are part of the Financial Aid Office's attempt to reduce those numbers further through education...
...basis, student opinion is a key component of the news stories and feature articles we publish; nosy newspaper reporters walk through the dining halls interrupting meals and meetings, gathering reaction to the day's breaking news. What do you think about the changes in financial aid? The end of randomization? The halving of blocking group sizes? The end of Radcliffe College...