Poorer families are bearing the brunt of college price hikes, data show

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<p>Sorry you might need to be logged in. Or this link might work.</p>

<p><a href=“Princeton University Tuition | CollegeData”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>…and yes, it’s grads who took out loans at some point over the entire time…at one of the very rare colleges that doesn’t package loans in their FA but at which about 65% do get some form of financial aid.</p>

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<p>Where do you get the 3% took federal loans figure?</p>

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As I stated earlier, it’s from the IPEDS database (<a href=“Use The Data”>http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/&lt;/a&gt; ). IPEDS is public and free to use, so feel free to confirm the listed numbers or repeat the study. I’d expect the study results would take under 30 minutes to generate by using the view trend function. The government College Navigator website uses this database as the primary source for their content. Note that they list the same 3% federal loan figure for entering first-year students Princeton at <a href=“College Navigator - Princeton University”>College Navigator - Princeton University; .</p>

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<p>I get why the data is confusing. Very different numbers out there.</p>

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<p>Princeton is a very generous university. It does not need to package loans in need based financial aid packages, and I believe it doesn’t do so…so any federal loans would be taken only if the student applied for it in addition to the terrific need based aid Princeton offers. It is very believable that a small %age of Princeton students have federal loans.</p>

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<p>^ like to meet EFC.</p>