英语翻译Good grades and high test scores still matter — a lot —

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Good grades and high test scores still matter — a lot — to many colleges as they award financial aid.
But with low-income students projected to make up an ever-larger share of the college-bound population in coming years,some schools are re-examining whether that aid,typically known as merit aid,is the most effective use of precious institutional dollars.
George Washington University in Washington,D.C.,for example,said last week that it would cut the value of its average merit scholarships by about one-third and pare the number of recipients,pouring the savings,about $2.5 million,into need-based aid.Allegheny College in Meadville,Pa.,made a similar decision three years ago.
Now,Hamilton College in Clinton,N.Y.,says it will phase out merit scholarships altogether.No current merit-aid recipients will lose their scholarships,but need-based aid alone will be awarded beginning with students entering in fall 2008.
Not all colleges offer merit aid; generally,the more selective a school,the less likely it is to do so.Harvard and Princeton,for example,offer generous need-based packages,but plenty of families who don't meet need eligibility have been willing to pay whatever they must for a big-name school.
For small regional colleges that struggle just to fill seats,merit aid can be an important revenue-builder because many recipients still pay enough tuition dollars over and above the scholarship amount to keep the institution running.
But for rankings-conscious schools in between,merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profiles."They're trying to buy students," says Skidmore College economist Sandy Baum.

好成绩和考试分数高的问题依然有许多高校作为奖励,他们的财政援助.但随着人口在未来几年内低收入学生了上大学的越来越多的份额预计将作出的,一些学校重审视是否援助,援助通常被称为优点,是珍贵的体制美元最有效地利用.乔治华盛顿大学,哥伦比亚特区,例如在华盛顿上周表示,它将削减奖学金的平均价值约一值得三和削减的收件人数量,浇注的储蓄,约250万美元,同时需要为基础的援助.阿勒格尼,在米德维尔学院,宾夕法尼亚州作出了类似的决定3年前.如今,克林顿汉密尔顿学院,纽约,表示将逐步取消奖学金完全值得.没有当前择优受援者将失去他们的奖学金,但需要的援助将可在2008年颁发开始,学生进入秋季.并非所有学院提供优异的援助;一般地,更有选择性的一所学校,就越有可能是做如此.哈佛大学和普林斯顿大学,例如,提供慷慨的需要为基础的软件包,但很多家庭谁资格不符合需要有愿意付费的姓名学校无论他们必须为一个大院校.对于小区域的斗争只是为了填补席位值得提出的援助可以成为重要的收入建设者,因为许多人士仍不够支付学费的机构运行美元之上的奖学金数额,以保持.但排名意识的学校之间,曾招募值得援助主要是作为一个工具顶部学生并提高他们的专业简介.“他们正在试图购买学生说,”斯基德莫尔学院经济学家桑迪鲍姆.