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College Admissions Hearing Shows University of Illinois Knows of Problem

College admissions staff and others were in front of lawmakers Thursday in Chicago answering questions as to how wealthy families were gaming the college aid system by giving up legal guardianship of their college bound kids. 

 

A report says families are going through the process to show that their kids have little to no income to pay for college. That creates a path for those students to receive higher amounts of state and federal scholarship dollars. Michele Trame, U of I’s Director of Financial Aid says that once this came to light the school started checking further into the details of each guardianship case.

 

 

U of I officials says what’s going on may be legal. That leaves the university in a tough spot to either stop it or step in because of existing state and federal law.

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