Word: aides
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Over the 12 years she has worked in the financial aid office at Yale, for example, Glenn-Long says the majority of students she has seen with credit card debt have it as a result of what she calls "unnecessary" spending or borrowing. Although the scope of the problem is small, she says potential effects can be devastating...
...interesting point made at the meeting, Glenn-Long says, was that community college students, who are usually older than traditional four-year college students, often take on credit card debt to meet the difference between the whole cost of tuition and the amount of financial aid they receive...
...into the mailroom, and kids are getting credit cards from everyone under the sun," says Matthew J. DeGreeff '89, a Greenough proctor and also a financial aid officer. "It's obscene...
...Perhaps it has to do with the effectiveness of the financial aid office," he said...
What most students don't know, he says, is that the financial aid office has a special fund for emergencies...