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Many Colleges Hiked Tuition for Low-Income Students. Why Did Wealthier Peers Get More Aid?

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. He instead picked close-by Bradley University and worked during the summer to pay the costs his financial aid didn’t cover.  Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up.
 
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