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College Costs Are Dollars Well Spent

U.S. News & World Report - Opinion Piece

August 17, 2010

At our best private institutions, if you can't afford the sticker price, you won't pay it. These colleges and universities are deeply committed to bringing the most promising young scholars to campus, no matter their families' wealth or income. In fact, they are more committed than ever. Even in the face of the Great Recession, the nation's top private research universities and liberal arts colleges are awarding larger financial aid packages to more students. Over the past five years, the median need-based aid grant at those schools has increased in size by a third; more than half of last year's freshmen received aid.

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