For millions of low-income families, sending a student to a private university is next to impossible. Santa Clara University says it has a plan to change that.<\/p>\n
Beginning next fall, any California applicant who is accepted into the South Bay university and whose family earns less than $150,000 a year will receive a free college education as part of the university’s recently expanded California Promise program.<\/p>\n
“As a Jesuit institution, the university has made a commitment to try to meet 100% of demonstrated need of students,” said Cindy Tirado, the university’s director of financial aid.<\/p>\n
In addition to qualifying for admittance, eligible families also have to possess assets worth less than $120,000. Final eligibility will be determined using the applicant\u2019s Federal Student Aid application, known as FAFSA.<\/p>\n
“I think a lot of times people think private college isn’t unattainable,” Tirado said. “This would make it attainable for a lot of families that don\u2019t see us as a possibility. It’s going to be able to get them access to an education that they never thought they could have.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For millions of low-income families, sending a student to a private university is next to impossible. Santa Clara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15,88,90,89,197],"class_list":["post-498707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-education","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}