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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, given the pretty dramatic financial aid initiatives some of the top universities have undertaken in the past decade, it would be a real shame if public school counselors weren't alerting high-achieving low-income first-generation college students that schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford are trying to take money out of the mix for such applicants.  Harvard, for example, waives both tuition and room & board for admittees whose families' HHIs are<60K and the free tuition offer may extend to families with HHIs over 100K in some cases (these families would have to pay for room and board).

I was a first generation applicant (well, FT -- both parents went to night school PT) but realize that I know these kinds of FA details now primarily because I'm an alumn.

Re population growth.  Actually my birth cohort was larger than DC's.  To the extent that she's facing larger applicant pools, that's a function of factors like the Common App, more international applicants, and the fact that college is a more universal aspiration (and/or increasingly seen as a necessity) now.  College is the new HS in the US.[/quote]

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