Then there is the money that campuses receive to place students in work-study jobs.

Most colleges, however, say they are not wealthy enough to forsake federal aid, which includes money to pay students in work-study jobs.

She was given a work-study job for $5 an hour.

I got accepted at the university with a small scholarship and a good work-study job in the library.

I thought about trading housecleaning for a legal work-study job.

She has a head start on her goal: her work-study job is at one of those fancy law firms with five names.

Since students also have to pay for travel and can't get work-study jobs overseas, most participants come from elite, expensive private institutions.

At the same time, low-income students are expected to put in at least seven hours a week at $8-an-hour work-study jobs.

Costs will be covered by grants as long as the student holds a work-study job.

The Ivy League universities were also given 5 to 8 times more than the median to pay their students in work-study jobs.