Word: self-help
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While reducing the self-help component of financial aid will certainly win Harvard accolades from prospective and current students alike, the applause comes at a high price...
...students who receive direct scholarship aid in addition to "self-help" aid-meaning loan and work-study requirements-will have their self-help requirements reduced by $2,000 and the difference made up in direct scholarship aid. This change, which could also affect some students on the verge of qualifying for direct scholarships, is estimated to affect more than 3,100 students...
Yale reduced family contributions and self-help, increasing their costs to $3.5 million. Plans for the future...
...most prized applicants new "Trustee Scholarships," aid packages that replace all loans with outright grants. This program will cost about $125,000. "Preferential packages" are not formally considered merit scholarships because they still offer aid based on calculations of demonstrated need. The new program completely eliminates self-help for the 50 Trustee Scholars...
...depressed to get out of bed. Darkly, I reach down to the pile of debris on the floor and root through empty ice-cream containers, half-empty cigarette cartons and thick Windows 98 self-help books to find what I'm looking for: that new Carnegie Mellon University study suggesting that using the Internet can cause isolation, loneliness and depression. Whatever, I sigh, and roll over for another nap. But later, when I wake up and go online, I can't seem to shake the thing. The researchers purport to have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious...