Best value; least debt stats meaningless?

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<p>Vandy is no-loan, btw.</p>

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In the past, we typically awarded various types of need-based loans to help meet a student’s demonstrated financial need. With this new initiative, the amount of need-based loans a student would have been offered in the past to meet demonstrated financial need is now replaced with Vanderbilt grant/gift assistance.

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<p>[Vanderbilt</a> Expanded Aid Program | No Need-Based Loans | Student Debt Reduction | Office of Student Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/financialaid/expanded-aid-program.php]Vanderbilt”>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/financialaid/expanded-aid-program.php)</p>

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We are limited to colleges in the Northeast…

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<p>Why? (There are schools below the Mason Dixon line that also offer merit money.)</p>