Release Date: January 16, 2010 This content is archived.
An article on the Web site AllGov.com reports public universities are increasingly giving more financial aid to students from relatively wealthy families instead of lower income homes in order to recruit academic achievers and boost the school's reputation, and notes that in a study showed that top-ranked private institutions have a higher proportion of minority students than public universities, including in New York State, where Columbia University bested UB.
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