Illinois MAP scholarships are in a crisis . . . but maybe we can help “Illinois turns away 27,000 for financial aid,” an article in the Chicago Tribune this week, reports some grim news for students who have been counting on scholarships from Illinois’s state-funded Monetary Award Program (MAP) program. Here’s the crisis in a nutshell . . . This May, 27,000 eligible applicants were turned away because Illinois didn’t have enough money to cover MAP scholarships. Those 27,000 students are part of an even bigger group. In the academic year that just ended, a total of 120,000 eligible MAP applicants were turned away. (Compare that to 60,000 the year before.) And the crisis is expected to grow dramatically in the year a ...
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