Financial Aid

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>It seems from this article that yale will not include equity or family assets in determining eligibility for financial aid - just income. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=28764%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=28764&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>What do stocks count as?</p>

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<p>i want some financial aid! :p</p>

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<p>Our own Barkowitz is in the article, and it would be interesting to hear some more of his thoughts on hte matter. The situation applies only for families with incomes below the $60K level, I believe. It does raise the question of a family who lives in a very nice home inherited, or given to them but with low earnings or living off of assets getting a leg up on financial aid over a family who truly has low income and few assets. Without looking at the assets, it is not easy to determine a fair allotment of aid. A family making over those threshhold levels living in a high housing cost area can be more strapped than a family owning a home as an asset and making less.</p>