College aid letters are misleading students and need a legal fix. Updated December 5, 2022 10:41 PM ET Originally published December 5, 2022 4:25 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered.

As a perspective college student, McKenna Hensley had to wade through confusing and hard-to-compare financial aid letters, trying to understand which college she could afford.

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