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GSAS Dean Peter Ellison gave a brief history of the improvements made in the school’s financial aid program since 1998. While the standard full financial aid offer to students in the humanities and social sciences in 1998 included two years of full tuition and two years of a 10-month stipend of roughly $13,000 per year, first-year graduate students this year were offered packages that included five years of full tuition, two years of a stipend totaling $16,200, a summer stipend worth $3,000 and a guarantee of a position as teaching fellow during...
...Ellison said there is still a great deal of room for improvement in the GSAS financial aid program...
...idea that students are students for 10 months is an anachronism we’d like to leave behind us,” Ellison said...
...Ellison said that such improvements in financial aid packages were necessary not only to improve the academic experience of students but also to help GSAS compete with other graduate schools. Ellison pointed out that since 1998, the yield on GSAS applications for students in the humanities has improved from just over 50 percent to 65 percent...
Last week, Ellison estimated that GSAS needed about $5-8 million in additional funding per year to fully fund its graduate students...