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Download full textHenschel, Gregory; Kirshstein, Rita J.; O'Malley, Amy; Rhodes, David – 2000
This handbook shows how families in various income groups manage to pay for college. The handbook is based on the real experiences of a large number of actual families, as described by national surveys. To find out exactly what it would cost to attend a particular college, the student would have to apply for financial aid, but this guide gives…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Educational Finance, Family Characteristics, Financial Aid Applicants
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1997
This paper assesses the likely impact of proposed changes in the Office of Postsecondary Education's method of calculating parental base-year income on determining eligibility for student financial aid. In examining applicant data the study concludes that the change to use of prior, prior year (PPY) income is not a good proxy for the current prior…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Family Financial Resources
