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Over the past two decades, colleges and universities have increasingly engaged in financial aid "bidding wars" for students with high test scores or grades but little or no financial need. A new white paper suggests that colleges could free up significantly more funding for need-based financial aid if they could legally work together to curb these bidding wars. The white paper...

A national survey co-sponsored by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) and the Project on Student Debt finds that high school counselors see worries about student debt affecting families’ decisions about college, and that counselors themselves are concerned about rising student debt.