March 16, 2001

A Proposal to Increase Pell Grants for Freshmen Could Penalize Those Students -- and Colleges

To the Editor:

I predict a heavier administrative burden with front-loading of Pell Grants ("Bush's Plan for Pell Grants Divides 2-Year and 4-Year Colleges," February 16). With such a difference in amounts between the first-year grant and grants for subsequent years, there would naturally be the need to distinguish the first-year students from the rest. There are other administrative issues, too.

Enter the issue of definition. How would you define a first-year student? Would

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