{"id":17009,"date":"2011-11-17T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/17\/financial-aid-handbook-cites-clarks-active-discovery-and-affordability\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:48:36","slug":"financial-aid-handbook-cites-clarks-active-discovery-and-affordability","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/17\/financial-aid-handbook-cites-clarks-active-discovery-and-affordability\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial aid handbook cites Clark’s ‘active discovery’ and affordability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clark University is singled out in the “Best Bets List” included in “The Financial Aid Handbook: Getting the Education You Want for the Price You Can Afford<\/strong>”<\/a> (The Career Press, Inc. 2011), by Carol Stack and Ruth Vedvik. The authors—college admission officers with more than 70 years of experience between them—include Clark in their list of 60 colleges and universities that “meet their mission and fund their favorites;” a school the authors consider “a wonderful place to get an education, where a student…could conceivably get enough financial aid to make it affordable.”<\/p>\r\nClark receives praise from the book’s authors for its program of “active discovery” and for fostering “one of the most active student populations [they’ve] ever seen.” Clark was selected on its ability to meet the following criteria:\r\n