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Financial aid “arms war” continues to drain cash from colleges

Financial aid “arms war” continues to drain cash from colleges

The nation’s private colleges are distributing more dollars to attract students at a speed that threatens to unravel their fiscal health, new figures suggest. Eighty-eight percent of first-time, full-time freshmen received tuition discounts this year and last, according to a survey of 401 private, nonprofit colleges released today by the National Association of College and […] … learn more→