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West Virginia Leads in Informing Families about College Affordability

West Virginia Leads in Informing Families about College Affordability

Colleges Select a Common Standard to Provide

Personalized Estimates of the True Cost of College

 

 INDIANAPOLIS, IN – April 21, 2011 — West Virginia’s college-bound students and their families will soon have a clearer picture of their real cost of attending 16 of the state’s public colleges. TheWest Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission(WVHEPC) and the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education(WVCTCE) are the first state agencies in the country to support the implementation of sophisticated, online netprice calculators (NPC) that will estimate merit and need-based aid for prospective college students before they apply to the colleges.

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