Yale Daily News

Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 1:11am

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University to increase annual spending from endowment

Change in 'spending rule' will provide extra money for financial aid, scientific research

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Published Monday, January 7, 2008
Posted Monday 7:30 p.m. In an aggressive change of course, Yale will increase the amount of money it spends from its endowment by nearly 40 percent next year in part to provide more financial aid to students and to launch new research on the West Campus, University President Richard Levin announced Monday.
#1 By (Anonymous) 1:36am on January 8, 2008

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

#2 By (Anonymous) 12:12pm on January 8, 2008

This is great!!! We are looking foward to the disclosure of the financial aid details!

#3 By (Anonymous) 2:03pm on January 8, 2008

Wow. Yale really does copy everything Harvard does. That's hilarious.

#4 By (Anonymous) 2:25pm on January 8, 2008

To 2:03pm..

Not really.. Harvard earned only 24% last year (trying to copy Yale's investment strategy) while Yale earned 28%

:P

#5 By (Anonymous) 4:23pm on January 8, 2008

No other university will be able to match this, because they were already spending at a higher rate.

#6 By (Anonymous) 8:29pm on January 9, 2008

Stanford has hinted that it may be forced to reconsider its 2008-9 financial aid projections given Harvard's initiative. They had planned to increase aid 15%.

#7 By (Anonymous) 10:14am on January 10, 2008

This should no longer be called "financial aid." This term implies that paying for college is a hardship and that families need some help to afford it. The funds being paid by Harvard and Yale are now so high that the intent is not to assist families who would otherwise have a hard time coming, but to bribe students to accept admission offers. Which makes me wonder if the kind of student who chooses a college based on which college pays them the most is really the kind of student Yale wants.

#8 By (Anonymous) 12:20pm on January 10, 2008

Yeah!!!!! The finaly dicided

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