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Amanda Mott
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Financial Aid
Can Net Price Calculators tell the true cost of an education?
Can Net Price Calculators tell the true cost of an education?
Laura Perna, a Penn GSE expert on college access, examines the accuracy of college cost calculators, and finds that many are confusing or even misleading.
Safe haven
Safe haven
Senior Brendan Taliaferro receives the President’s Engagement Prize for a project to provide housing and support for homeless LGBTQ youth in Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania regular decision results for Class of 2023
University of Pennsylvania regular decision results for Class of 2023
Penn today announced admission decisions for Regular Decision applicants to the Class of 2023, the institution’s 267th class. The admitted cohort of 3,345 was selected from a pool of 44,960 applicants.
Penn Trustees approve 2019-20 financial aid budget and tuition
Penn Trustees approve 2019-20 financial aid budget and tuition
The University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees approved a 3.9% increase in tuition for the coming year, while also approving a record $247 million undergraduate financial aid budget.
A celebration as thank-you note
A celebration as thank-you note
The Fall Scholarship Celebration brings together donors to undergraduate financial aid with their scholarship recipients every year to build connections with the students that their philanthropy supports.
College opportunity at risk: A Penn GSE report on 50 states
College opportunity at risk: A Penn GSE report on 50 states
A new report by Professor Joni Finney finds the U.S. is “woefully unprepared” to meet 21st-century workforce challenges, and all states must make significant changes in their approach higher education. The College Opportunity Risk Assessment is the first state-by-state analytic tool to compare the risks to higher education.
Penn First Plus expands programs and support for first-generation students
A preview of new initiatives for the community of first-generation, low-income students to provide more support to help them thrive and succeed at Penn.
Picturing first generation
First-generation, low-income students take a moment to pose for the camera and share a few words about what their Ivy experience means to them, and the Penn community.
Singing the praises of progress for first-generation, low-income students
Singing the praises of progress for first-generation, low-income students
Kerry O’Neil knew that the University of Pennsylvania was the right place for her, despite its location 3,300 miles from her home in Glasgow, Scotland.
Regular-decision results for Class of 2022
Penn's Class of 2022 admissions roster for regular-decision applicants has been released, detailing the freshman class selection out of over 44,000 applicants.
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Scripps News
Income program helps those formerly incarcerated stay out of prison
Next year Penn will release its findings on a guaranteed income program designed for the formerly incarcerated in Gainesville, Florida.
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Barron’s
Philanthropy is changing as individual donations decline
According to a Penn study, individual donations fell about 4.5 % during the pandemic, but the average amount of each gift surged more than 200%.
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Harrisburg Patriot-News
250K in Pa. signed up for Biden administration’s student loan relief plan
A 2022 report from Penn estimated that student loan forgiveness could cost the federal government around $1 trillion.
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Time
Biden’s latest student loan forgiveness plan probably won’t work, experts say
Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law explains why borrowers shouldn’t expect Biden’s new student loan forgiveness relief to be as sweeping as previous attempts.
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The Washington Post
Four million have enrolled in Biden’s new student loan repayment plan
The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that the Save student loan repayment plan will cost as much as $558 billion over a 10-year period.
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Chronicle of Philanthropy
Part stock fund, part donor-advised fund: A new bid for young donors
Katherina Rosqueta of the School of Social Policy & Practice discusses progress in the quest to identify meaningful metrics of nonprofit performance, such as SP2’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy.
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