Midwest vs. New England

LACalum
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:12:23 +0000

1190, Carleton is committed to meeting 100% of the demonstrated need of all accepted students (using the FAFSA and CSS Profile). Unfortunately (from both their perspective and that of applicants), it is not true that they are phasing into eliminating student loans for students with incomes under 75,000. They have created “access scholarships” to reduce the loans for the lowest need applicants, but I’m fairly certain they have not declared that this policy will lead to no loans for anyone under 75,000. The sad truth is Carleton simply does not have enough money to sustain the type of programs that have been implemented by Amherst, Williams, Harvard, etc. Frankly, I am absolutely baffled as to how Bowdoin is going to pull it off in the long term either…