Access : Net Prices, Affordability, and Equity at a Highly Selective College. Discussion Paper / Catherine B. Hill and Gordon C. Winston.

All of the financial aid decisions at Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts) for the past 14 years--nearly 14,000 of them--were reviewed to see how much students actually paid for tuition, room, board, and fees to go to that highly selective and expensive school, their net prices. Williams p...

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Main Authors: Hill, Catherine B.
Winston, Gordon C. (Author)
Corporate Author: Williams Coll., Williamstown, MA
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001.
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Physical Description:27 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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