$250,000 Family Income and Needs Aid

Union College (NY) costs more than $73,000 to attend, including tuition, room and board, and books. Union is one of the few colleges that meets the full need of students it admits, but it is not need blind. Today it is announcing a new effort to recruit from a pool that officials at Union say gets lost in the struggle of colleges to keep up with student demand: students from families with income of up to $250,000 who have an expected family contribution of $90,000 or less. Union is committed to giving each of the students who come from these families at least $20,000 in scholarship aid. The grants, dubbed Making U Possible Family Grants, come as colleges struggle to meet the need of students.