Budget Cuts Cost High School Seniors $3,000 In Annual Scholarships

baltimoresun.com - News, Baltimore Sun
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 5:14pm

Students learn they have lost $3,000 a year in college fundsLindsay Michocki decided to attend the University of Maryland, College Park partly because she thought a $3,000 annual state merit scholarship plus the school's financial aid would cover almost all of her tuition. But the state money, a casualty of budget cuts, has evaporated — and Michocki already turned down schools including Yale, Cornell and Johns Hopkins because the state didn't tell her until after the decision deadline.

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