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...article "Stanford Boosts Financial Aid Packages" (Feb. 18) notes that only Harvard and Duke among the nation's top five schools have failed to respond to Princeton's move to increase financial aid. In fact, Duke has long used some of these competitive practices. Students' tuition is frozen at freshman-year levels, even as incoming classes pay more. And students from the Carolinas receive grants in lieu of loans in their financial aid packages. This last factor was important in my own decision to attend Duke, and being debt-free has expanded my later options. JEFFREY W. VANKE, GSAS...
...Duke at Clemson, ESPN...
Following roughly similar announcements by Princeton and Yale in the last three weeks, Stanford's changes leave Harvard and Duke as the only universities in U.S. News & World Report's top five still using a traditional--but often less generous--system...
...Duke University Financial Aid Director James A. Belvin Jr. said his school, with a far smaller endowment than Princeton, Yale, Stanford or Harvard, could not easily afford similar changes...
...added, however, that if other schools continue to follow Princeton's lead, Duke will be forced to change somehow in order to stay competitive...