Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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University leaves financial aid group

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, September 26, 2008

When Yale announced a groundbreaking new financial aid initiative last year, the entire higher education community dissected the fine print and media sources around the country eagerly covered the story. When Yale, in a related move, left the 568 Group a month or so later, no one noticed.

The 568 Group comprises over 25 schools around the country that are need-blind when admitting students and use the “consensus approach methodology” in their financial aid-needs analysis. By using the same methodology, the reasoning goes, the participating institutions should get roughly similar...

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