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Study: Black students less likely than white students to win scholarships
California Watch – The figures show that white students here also receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarship funding…
Monday, September 12, 2011
A national report released this week by financial aid guru Mark Kantrowitz finds minority students are less likely to win private scholarships or receive merit-based institutional grants than Caucasian students
The analysis, based on 2003-04 and 2007-08 data for hundreds of thousands of students from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, found that nationally, Caucasian students are 40 percent more likely to win private scholarships than minority students.
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