No current merit-aid recipients will lose their scholarships, but need-based aid alone will be awarded beginning with students entering in fall 2008.

目前的奖学金获得者不会失去他们的奖学金，但从2008年秋季开始，只会对学生发放助学金。

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Merit-based aid is aid offered to students who achieve excellence in a given area, and is generally known as academic, athletic and artistic merit scholarships.

以成绩为基础的奖学金是为在某一领域取得优异成绩的学生提供的奖学金，常见的包括学术、体育和艺术奖学金。

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A complicating factor is that merit aid has become so popular with middle-income families, who don't qualify for need-based aid, that many have come to depend on it.

一个复杂因素就是，奖学金深受不符合助学金申请条件的中层收入家庭的欢迎，甚至许多这样的家庭对其产生依赖。

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