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Article: Princeton U. committee suggests changes to financial aid calculations
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- November 30, 1998
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Griff Witte
University Wire
11-30-1998
(Daily Princetonian) (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. -- Students on financial aid with outside scholarships will no longer lose University grant money under a proposed $300,000 change to financial aid policy.
Whereas only half of the money from any scholarship of more than $500 is presently deducted from the self-help portion of students' financial aid packages, all of it would be deducted from that area under the proposal.
Half of the scholarship amount above $500 will no longer be deducted from grants.
"It ensures that students either have to work less while at Princeton or they have less of a debt burden once they leave Princeton," said USG academics chair ...