Word: upperclassmen
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...formula-calculated family contribution. While the formulas haven't been altered, the contribution can fluctuate wildly as family situations change. And it was this figure, as the year's adjusted aid packages began arriving in midsummer, that caused some unpleasant surprises and forced some serious reevaluation among upperclassmen of whether they can pay what Harvard asks...
Some students are angry or bitter at unexpected burdens, and a few accuse the aid office of passing costs to them or counting on upperclassmen to scrimp and survive the last year or two, rather than leave. Others blame the federal cuts and the new limitations on Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL) for the crunch and are relieved that their packages will still get them by. The common denominator, though, is a feeling of fear, of near-escape. Everyone, it seems, has heard vaguely that some students cannot afford to come back. No one knows just...
...seems obvious to me that despite what they're saying, things are getting tougher and it's mostly hitting upperclassmen," says Christina Spaulding '84, who had all of a $3000 scholarship replaced by "self-help"--jobs and recommended loans--this year. She, like Weiner, was told that the adjustment came because her family's income went up, but she says that the two factors don't nearly balance...
...added that several upperclassmen stopping off for a meal in the Union had offered support as well. "We just made them honorary members of the Class of '85 and took the money," Middleton said...
...full of people who never made peace with athletics In high school an athletics image was worth striving for, but those who come to Yale as athletics find the academic welcome not always warm "In one of the funnier passages n Book. Kresling sees two eminents academic looking upperclassmen on the way to new Haven Imagining a scarlet football emblazoned on my chest. I reached into my pocket for my glasses Comforted by the impressive thickness of my own lenses. I ostentatiously uncovered my course catalog and flipped through the pages...