March 7, 2008
Student-Aid Applications Rise at Community Colleges
The number of students at community colleges applying for federal financial aid increased more than 37 percent from 2001 to 2006, according to an analysis of data compiled by the Institute for College Access and Success.
Despite the increase, community-college students are still only about half as likely as their counterparts at four-year colleges to apply for such aid.
The data, culled from EconomicDiversity.org, the institute's database, show that from the 2000-1 academic year
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