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This bill's most tangible effect for undergraduates across the country will most likely be a $125 increase in the maximum Pell Grant a student can receive--from $3,000 to $3,125, effective next fall. The amount is a compromise between Senate and House bills passed this summer...
Pell Grants are essentially federal scholarships--government money given to needy undergraduates that does not have to be paid back. About 700 Harvard students received some amount of Pell Grant money last year, according to the Financial Aid office, adding up to about $1 million of Harvard's $41 million grant budget...
...unclear how much more money Harvard will receive now--the Financial Aid office was unsure whether students not getting the maximum amount of Pell Grant money would be allotted a proportional increase...
...Undergraduate Council, and particularly the council's president, Beth A. Stewart '00, should be commended for the tremendous amount of effort dedicated to lobbying individual House masters to effect the change. It is also worth noting that the change was achieved not through a unilateral bid to the College's administration, but through appeals to House masters, smaller-scale requests for change that bore more fruit...
...conclusion of the Wye talks is unlikely to give Clinton much to crow about: "Even if they succeed it will be a very modest achievement for the amount of time, energy and prestige the President has invested in this effort," says Fischer. "It mostly just ensures that this troubled peace process can continue...