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April 3, 2008
Committee Approves Bill That Would Allow Colleges to Share Financial-Aid Information
Washington — The House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that would make permanent a law that allows colleges to share limited amounts of information about their approaches to awarding student aid.
The law, which is set to expire on September 30, was enacted in 1992, after the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against 23 elite institutions, known as the “Overlap Group,” that had met annually to determine aid awards for every student admitted to more than one of them.
The law exempts colleges from some antitrust provisions, enabling them to use a common method for assessing a family’s financial need, as long as they make need-blind admissions. The House passed a similar bill last year, but it was not taken up in the Senate.
Proponents of the antitrust exemption argue that developing common aid practices reduces variation among award packages offered to the same students and thereby allows them to make decisions about where to enroll based on factors other than cost. But opponents say that the exemption reduces competition among institutions and could force all students to pay more for college.
A 2006 report by the Government Accountability Office found “virtually no difference” in the amounts that students and their families were expected to pay at institutions that used a consensus approach to awarding aid and at similar institutions that made aid awards on their own. —Kelly Field
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For accuracy’s sake, please correct the text from “as long as they make need-blind admissions’ to “as long as they SAY they make need-blind admissions.”
— Dan Apr 3, 07:21 PM #
Of the 23 colleges in the Overlap Group, 17 have adopted “no loans” policies that eliminate loans from the financial aid packages of low income students (and in 10 cases, from the financial aid packages of all students).
The 17 who have adopted such policies are: Amherst College, Bowdoin College, Brown University, Colby College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Princeton University, Tufts University, University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, Williams College, and Yale University.
The six who have not adopted such policies are: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Middlebury College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Trinity College (CT).
— Mark Kantrowitz Apr 4, 04:37 PM #