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Article: Financial Aid Prospecting -- ONLINE.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- October 28, 1999
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The Internet Is Loaded With Valuable Financial Aid Information, but Few Campus Wen Sites Are Designed to Help Them Find It
Log on to any of the hundreds of college Web sites now available on the Internet, and you'll find everything from virtual tours to online applications. But too few of these sites contain the information would-be college students seek most: The what, where, when and how of financial aid.
Around 83 percent of students applying to college will use the Internet to research information about schools in which they are interested, according to a recent survey conducted by Peterson's, the college guide-book publishing giant. Of these ...