2. Otterbein University (Westerville, Ohio)
Profile: Private institution with approximately 2,500 undergraduates. Its 2012-13 tuition is $30,658.
Grant history: Otterbein University has been offering its Sibling Grant for more than 20 years. Currently, the annual Sibling Grant is $1,000 per sibling and is available to dependent undergraduates who are concurrently enrolled full-time at the college.
The discount’s impact: “The discount is not huge, but it does make a difference for families over time,” said Jefferson Blackburn-Smith, vice president of enrollment. “I think there is a very strong family relationship with the university. We have a significant number of legacy students that come here every year because their parents or grandparents attended the university. In the current academic year, 109 students are on the grant.
“It’s more about family than the siblings,” said Blackburn-Smith. “A lot of times it’s, ‘My older sibling went and I came and liked it and I decided to go there, too.’ That whole feeling that you’re a part of a family really does bring in siblings. It’s a really near community [at Otterbein], and people know and care about each other and are engaged.”
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3. George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
Profile: Private institution with approximately 10,400 undergraduates. Its 2012-13 tuition is $43,747.
Grant history: The GW Family Grant was established in 1988. The grant amounts to one-half tuition for the second student, and can be awarded for the full academic year or for the fall or spring semester only. In order to qualify, siblings must be enrolled full-time in a first time, four year bachelor’s degree program and be charged at GW’s full-time rate.
The grant’s impact: “The GW Family Grant was designed to financially assist families sending two or more full-time undergraduate children to the George Washington University simultaneously,” said Dan Small, associate vice president for Financial Assistance. “In addition, the university also offers fixed tuition and guaranteed financial aid, which locks in an incoming student’s cost of tuition for a five year period and ensures that need and merit-based institutional grants remain at least at the levels awarded at the time of a student’s initial enrollment.”
In the current academic year, 127 families are recipients of the GW family grant.
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