Ninety percent of colleges reported increases in financial aid applications this year, and 74 percent of colleges reported an increase in the number of students offered institutional grant aid, according to a survey being released today by the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Those numbers — from a survey of NACAC’s members, released at the association’s annual meeting here — are in some ways not surprising, as admissions officers have been saying for most of the last year that requests for aid were increasing and that their institutions were scrambling to add funds to help those hurt (or scared) by the collapsing national economy.

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by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.

Posted: September 25th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.