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...preferential packaging." The most desirable students--the ones who blew the lid off the SAT, for instance, or those who will be the first in their family to go to college--get a nice surprise in their aid awards: fewer loans, more grants. "Just like an airplane," explains Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO). "No two people going from point A to point B paid the same price for the ticket...
...Nassirian is a lobbyist, not an analyst. The folks at NAICU are lobbyists, not analysts,” King wrote in an e-mail...
...absolutely convinced that this is not a representative sample,” said AACRAO Executive Director Barmak Nassirian...
...said that schools that subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education were more likely to respond to the survey than nonsubscribers. The talked to 249 colleges nationwide, but Nassirian said that at least 706 should have been surveyed...
...disagree about normative issues,” Nassirian said. “But, about statistics, there should be no argument...