Stanford tiers the aid amounts given to students based on their marital or family status. How are you able to determine how to tier aid for students with families?
It depends on whether they are U.S. or international, because there are some federal restrictions based on the federal-loan eligibility for U.S. students. If a student is a U.S. citizen, we would use a higher budget to determine their fellowship eligibility because obviously, it’s more expensive for two people than it is for one. But we are restricted to the single-student budget for federal loan eligibility, and in that circumstance, and under what the federal government allows us to do, we make adjustments on the amount we expect the student to contribute, or the student and their spouse to contribute from their income. That way they are required to contribute less. We do make adjustment for families. If a couple has children, then we can add different items to the budget such as child care, again, depending on their circumstances.
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