Authors
Laura Packard Tucker, Devlin Hanson, Annabel Stattelman-Scanlan
- Pages
- 30
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Background 1
- Challenges Enrolling and Persisting in College for Students with Foster Care History 2
- Decreasing Affordability of Postsecondary Education 2
- Difficulty Paying for School 3
- Financial Aid for Students with Foster Care History 3
- Middle-Class Scholarship (MCS) for Foster Youth 5
- Paying for College as a Student with Foster Care History 1
- Middle Class Scholarship Usage in the Data 6
- Young People’s Experiences Paying for College 8
- Students’ College Decisions 8
- What did Students know about financial aid when making their college decisions? 8
- How did information about financial aid guide their decisions? 10
- What might they have done differently with more information? 13
- Paying for College 14
- WHAT Share OF THEIR COST OF ATTENDANCE DO students PAY? 15
- HOW ARE THEY MAKING UP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AID AND COST? 16
- HOW DOES Paying for School IMPACT THEIR college EXPERIENCE? 17
- Students’ Insights and Recommendations 19
- Conclusion 23
- Notes 26
- References 27
- About the Authors 30
- Acknowledgments 30