New $284,000,000 Settlement: If You Received Financial Aid From Columbia, Penn, Yale, Cornell, And 13 Other Colleges, Claim $2,000 Now!

All U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have during the Class Period:

1. enrolled in one or more of Defendants’ full-time undergraduate programs,
2. who received at least some need-based financial aid from one or more Defendants, and
3. whose tuition, fees, room, or board to attend one or more of Defendants’ full-time undergraduate programs was not fully covered by the combination of any types of financial aid or merit aid (not including loans) in any undergraduate year.

The Class Period is defined as follows:

• For Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, MIT, Northwestern, Notre, Rice, Vanderbilt, Yale – from Fall Term 2003 through the date the Court enters an order preliminarily approving the Settlement.
• For Brown, Dartmouth Emory – from Fall Term 2004 through the date the Court enters an order preliminarily approving the Settlements.
• For Caltech – from Fall Term 2019 through the date the Court enters an order preliminarily approving the Settlement.
• For Johns Hopkins – from Fall Term 2021 through the date the Court enters an order preliminarily approving the Settlement.

Excluded from the Class are:

• Any Officers and/or Trustees of Defendants, or any current or former employees holding any of the following positions: Assistant or Associate Vice Presidents or Vice Provosts, Executive Directors, or Directors of Defendants’ Financial Aid and Admissions Offices, or any Deans or Vice Deans, or any employees in Defendants’ in-house legal offices; and
• the Judge presiding over this action, his or her law clerks, spouse, and any person within the third degree of relationship living in the Judge’s household and the spouse of such a person.