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College Costs Rise, Undercut Gains in Financial Aid

by Michelle J. Nealy , October 23, 2007

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College Board analysis included distribution information about Academic Competitiveness Grants, approved by Congress by for the 2006-07. The Academic Competitiveness Grants go to selected first year-and second-year Pell Grant recipients who completed a high school curriculum deemed rigorous by the U.S. Department of Education. However, only students enrolled in degree programs are eligible. Those enrolled in certificate program do not reap any of the grant’s benefits.

In the first year of the program, 400,000 students received awards averaging $850, but an estimated 250,000 were excluded.

Also awarded for the first time in 2006-07 were SMART Grants, which go to selected third- and fourth-year Pell Grant recipients majoring in physical life or computer science; engineering; mathematics; technology; or a specified foreign language. In the first year of the program, 80,00 students received awards averaging $3,875.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

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