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Experts Plan FAFSA Reform
KSG scholars outline scheme to simplify formula and application form
Published On Monday, April 09, 2007 1:07 AM
By RAVIV MURCIANO-GOROFF
Contributing Writer</p>
<p>Two scholars at the Kennedy School of Government seek to increase the number of low-income students applying to higher education institutions by simplifying the application form and formula for calculating federal financial aid.
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Associate Professor of Public Policy Susan M. Dynarski ’87 and Judith E. Scott-Clayton, a Kennedy School student, constructed a simplified formula through which federal aid is calculated based on two factors: income and number of dependents.
Their most recent discussion paper, entitled “College Grants on a Postcard: A Proposal for Simple and Predictable Federal Student Aid,” outlines a financial aid form that would fit on a single postcard.
“There is pretty good evidence that some institutional financial aid programs have increased college enrollment rates. However, there is little firm evidence that federal student aid increases college attendance,” Scott-Clayton said. “It seems to us that the simpler systems were getting good results, while the complicated systems weren’t.”
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