Just 24 percent of parents and 37 percent of students believe they will qualify for financial aid, according to a national survey of more than 5,000 high school students and parents released today by Royall & Company, a division of EAB. That is significantly fewer families than the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) says actually receive aid in the form of grants or low-interest loans from the federal government: 85 percent of all college-going students.
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