Sentences with phrase «lack access to financial aid»

It is estimated that nearly 500,000 U.S. college students would lack access to financial aid if the Perkins Loan Program is not extended.

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Simply giving more financial aid fails to directly address the lack of access most low - income students have to elite schools.

The status quo of complex information, complicated processes, and limited access to professional assistance are nudges in their own right: a confusing financial aid application, an unanticipated application fee, the lack of opportunity to visit a college campus all have the potential to convey the message that «college isn't for you» to a hard - working, talented, but socioeconomically disadvantaged student.

The new study, conducted by Stanford University Associate Professor Eric Bettinger, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Bridget Terry Long, and University of Toronto Associate Professor Philip Oreopoulos, tracked nearly 17,000 low - income individuals and determined that cumbersome financial aid forms and lack of information about higher education costs and financial aid prevented access to higher education.