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Article: Poorer students find aid tougher to get
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- Miami Times
- Article date:
- May 3, 2005
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Malveaux, Julianne
Miami Times
05-03-2005
This month, more than a million young people will receive letters that will
let them know whether they've been accepted to the college of their choice.
If those acceptance letters are not accompanied by the right financial aid
package, some young people will find themselves altering or deferring their
dreams. Too many will be low-income students who find the financial aid
picture more daunting than in the past.
While the amount of financial aid available rises every year, the recent
trend has been to focus on "merit" scholarships for students with high
grades and test scores, as opposed to "need based" scholarships for
students who come from low-Income ...