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12.03.2003

Times article misleading, Brown U. financial aid directors say 

From the Brown Daily Herald: "Private universities with the wealthiest student bases receive a larger share of government funding for financial aid, the New York Times recently reported.

But the numbers don't tell the whole story, according to financial aid directors at local colleges..."

The November 9 article is here.

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MORE: "According to the article, Brown received an average of $169.23 per student who applied for financial aid in order to run its Perkins loan program in the 2000−2001 academic year, whereas Stanford University received $211.80 and the median college received only $14.38.

D'Arcy questioned the accuracy of the Times' analysis of federal aid data that produced the article's statistics.

'I really struggled on how they came up with these dollar amounts,' he said..."

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