March 19, 2004

Need-Based Aid Recipients Fare Well

By ALYSON KLEIN

Maryland students who receive need-based financial assistance are about as likely to stay in college and to graduate on time as are students who did not receive such aid, according to a study released this month by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

The findings are likely to fuel a national debate over whether states' student aid should be awarded based on need or on merit. While critics of merit-based aid worry that the programs benefit mainly well-to-do students who would

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