This article reports on efforts of various private colleges to attract students, including admission of more students, large tuition discounts, achievement-based scholarships, and loans which convert to grants if academic achievement is high. Efforts are intended to attract more middle-income students away from the cheaper public institutions. (DB)

Students from middle-income families are losing their Guaranteed Student Loans this fall as the changes in the Higher Education Act are implemented. The changes are aimed at making sure loans would be provided only to the lowest-income students. (MLW)

Fewer students from families with moderate incomes are enrolling at colleges and universities with the drop greatest for highly selective private and public institutions. The trend may be a result of increasing costs of college attendance and of fewer numbers of families in the middle-income group. (DB)