For months before the Tuesday announcement of Yale’s record-low admit rate, colleges counselors repeated a single chorus in interviews: Dire economic conditions and Yale’s new financial aid policy would mean more applications overall and more applicants looking for financial aid from the University.
As the specter of layoffs looms over the University, student jobs on campus will likely remain safe, at least for now, administrators said.
As of July, Yale will no longer be the cheapest school in the Ivy League.
Yale students are by and large pleased with Yale’s sweeping financial aid reforms, but more work remains to be done, the Yale College Council wrote in a report released this week.
Tuition is expected to rise modestly next year, pending approval by the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.
Although Yale announced in mid-November that it would offer additional financial aid to families struggling during the economic crisis, few students have taken the University up on its offer.
In an upcoming economic stimulus bill, Congress will increase the budget for Pell grants by $15 billion, Politico reported Tuesday. If passed, the bill will increase the amount of an annual Pell Grant by $500, or 10.6 percent. For the current year, the maximum value of a Pell grant is $4,731, and the Pell grant budget for 2008 is more than $16.2 billion, according to the...
Yale’s early admissions race has become increasingly crowded each year, and preliminary counts show that this year will be no exception.
Average tuition and fees at four-year colleges and universities rose at a slightly faster pace than the Consumer Price Index last year, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the College Board. Students received record amounts of financial aid, though average student borrowing also increased. Since this data was collected before the current economic downturn,...
Benjamin Hillman LAW ’08 got an unexpected surprise for graduation: an additional month of interest and an earlier-than-expected call asking him to pay back his student loans.
Interviews suggest financial-aid reforms may have convinced more high-school seniors to choose Yale.
Yale School of Medicine will eliminate the required parental contribution for families making up to $100,000 annually beginning next year, Dean Robert Alpern announced Monday.
