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Article: Princeton has impressive financial aid policy
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- March 31, 2006
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Viola Huang
University Wire
03-31-2006
(The Daily Princetonian) (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. -- Harvard, Stanford and Penn have in recent months announced financial aid initiatives aimed at making college more affordable for low-income families. According to the Princeton University financial aid office, however, these policies still lag behind those that Princeton awards.
The initiatives claim to make college free for families with incomes below certain thresholds -- $45,000 at Stanford and $40,000 at Harvard -- but do not necessarily mean tuition is completely loan free for families under the cutoff level, said Robin Moscato, associate director of financial aid.
"What they say is that for ...