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...Babich said. “So it was nice to get a couple hits that weren’t caught.”That would be as close as the Crimson would come, though, as the Big Green added four in the top of the next inning. Senior Ray Allen hit a three-run homer in the fourth after a bloop single had already scored a run.“Once you get tense and the pitches get up a little bit, they have some guys who can really drive the ball,” Walsh said.One of those hard...
...medical bills, rent or private secondary-school tuition. Officers also report that they have leeway to adjust aid packages if parents make the case that they are nearing retirement age and need to preserve more of their savings instead of exhausting them on college tuition. This year, says Seth Allen, Grinnell's dean of admission and financial aid, more families are appealing on grounds that, after one parent had to follow a job to a different state, they now find themselves supporting two households. "The typical financial-aid process doesn't usually give us those kinds of nuances," Allen says...
...award unreasonable is different from simply finding it unpleasant. One kind of appeal no college will consider is from families who probably can afford to pay what's being asked of them - but would simply rather spend the money elsewhere. "We want to fund a family's need," says Allen. "We can't afford to fund their want...
...data that one school had not taken into consideration. "If the generous award is because the family provided additional information to the [other school's] financial-aid office that allowed a more appropriate need-based award to be made, we'll want that information as well," says Grinnell's Allen. "More times than not, we're able to improve the financial-aid award...
...Staff writer Allen J. Padua can be reached at ajpadua@fas.harvard.edu...