June 18, 2009
An Experiment in Merit-Based Student Aid Is Likely to End
Jim Burger for The Chronicle
Angelo Haskins, a rising senior at Goucher College, says the promise of the Academic Competitiveness Grant helped motivate him to stay in high school and get good grades.
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Jim Burger for The Chronicle
Angelo Haskins, a rising senior at Goucher College, says the promise of the Academic Competitiveness Grant helped motivate him to stay in high school and get good grades.
Washington
Angelo Haskins graduated in 2006 from an inner-city, East Baltimore high school with a transcript showing a challenging course load and a 3.6 grade-point average.
His hard work earned him a spot in the first group of recipients of Academic Competitiveness Grants, a new federal aid program for low-income, high-achieving students. Without the $750 grant to bolster his other federal aid, he said, he might not have been able to attend Goucher College, in Maryland, where he is a rising
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