B Y T H E N U M B E R S
Financial aid
According to the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid Web site:
• During the 1800s and for the first part of the 1900s, student aid at Princeton consisted primarily of jobs such as picking corn on the University farm, stoking furnaces, pressing pants and waiting on tables. For more than two centuries, it was possible literally to work one's way through college.
• When a student is awarded a "Princeton grant," he or she is receiving money from a $29 million fund that actually consists of more than 1,000 different accounts.
• After awards are made from the central fund, a sophisticated scholarship assignment program called "SASSY" is run to match a student with a specific scholarship. The computer program accommodates a wide variety of scholarship restrictions. For example, the University has scholarships that go to:
- Children of ministers.
- Students from the 21 states served by the Union Pacific Railroad.
- Children of officers of the Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine.
- A student who benefits from a scholarship given by actor Jimmy Stewart in honor of his father.
- Engineering students from Delaware.
- A student who is proficient in at least three languages and is interested in humanities and international affairs.
- A student in theater arts.
- An ancient history major with an interest in archaeology.
- An Eagle Scout from St. Louis, Mo.
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