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Let’s Empower Families to Negotiate About the Cost of College

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What families don’t know is that, behind the curtain of college admissions and financial aid, there is an annual educated gamble occurring, where each college is attempting to guess the highest amount of money they can charge each student that then allows the university to meet its net tuition revenue goals.

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4 Charts That Show What College Is Worth

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Earnings are based on salaries of former students who received federal aid, and debt refers to federal loan debt. One factor is that none of its roughly 350 students pay the full $80,000 tuition, says Emily Roper-Doten, the college’s dean of admission and financial aid. Which Schools Pay Off? Source: U.S.

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Let’s Change Financial Aid to Help Students Who Pay Their Own Way Through College

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Beyond merit aid, my family and I also figured that I would qualify for need-based aid. To maximize my odds of winning a full-ride scholarship or getting accepted to a school with generous financial aid, I applied to 23 colleges and for more than 50 independent scholarships. I thought I was set. The reason why?

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Lessons Learned from Running a Scholarship Program for Undergraduate Pre-Service STEM Teachers

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Active partnerships across the university have been important for our program both in recruiting and preparation, and our teacher education admissions department has also been an essential partner. Paying the price: College costs, financial aid, and the betrayal of the American dream. Goldrick-Rab, S., Anderson, D.

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Proponents of Competency-Based Education Push to Spur Adoption — Amid Challenges

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And for the back-office processes of financial aid, enrollment, admission, tuition [and] assessment, everything has to be modified.” What do we do?’,” she added, giving the example of how to handle revising a financial-aid reward if, say, a student is switching from a traditional program to a competency-based one mid-year.

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