financial aid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of financial aid
First recorded in 1770–80, for an earlier sense
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The enrollment process needs to be examined, she said, to ensure students are not “being lost between application, financial aid, counseling, registration and their first day of class.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Schools are thinking not only about competitors, “but just to get families to sit up and pay attention,” said Brett Schraeder, vice president of financial aid optimization at consultant EAB.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The median earnings of Stevens students who received financial aid four years after graduation is $112,538, according to government data, nearly double the national median for four-year colleges of $60,377.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A majority of domestic students at most schools receive some type of financial aid from the university.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He insisted that imposing political order on Haiti, no matter how much financial aid was provided, wouldn’t improve the problems of poverty and disease.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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