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To help students during the recession, USC is announcing an 8% increase in the funds it expects to commit to undergraduate financial aid for the 2009-10 school year. The additional money, all in the form of grants, would amount to about $13.2 million on top of the $165 million in general aid funds that the Los Angeles school awarded to undergraduates this year. USC also spent about $15 million this year on scholarships that are restricted by donors to particular groups of students and expects that amount to remain about the same in the fall.
“We are committed to partnering with families to make a USC education attainable for all qualified applicants,” USC Provost C.L. Max Nikias said in a statement.
USC officials said they are still tallying freshman applications for the fall but expect the numbers to be about the same as last year, when the campus received a record 35,899 applications for 2,600 places in the freshman class.
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