But the new three-year numbers, though preliminary, give a clearer picture of whether a student at a particular college will default, and the government will soon begin using them to help decide which colleges qualify for taxpayer-supported student-aid programs.
Wood turned pro after college and qualified for the L.P.G.A. Tour on her first attempt.
Since 1990, when a group of mostly college players qualified for the World Cup in Italy, an increasing number of American professionals have played more significant roles for bigger clubs in Europe's most competitive leagues.
Using DSM-4 criteria, researchers in Portugal found that 73percentt of a sample of female high school and college students qualified for a diagnosis of EDNOS, while 15percentt were anorexic and 12percentt were bulimic.
Does attending the local community college qualify as job training for the purposes of fulfilling the work requirement?
Gwen Jorgensen, a swimmer and all-American runner at Wisconsin who got into the triathlon through the college recruitment program, qualified for London less than 18 months after completing her first race.
It is unfair, she said, that so many people she knows in college can qualify for federal loans and grants but she cannot.
It also says that a college can qualify for more federal money only if at least 35 percent of its former students are repaying their loans, and it says that students' annual loan repayments cannot exceed 12 percent of their earnings.
Consider this run-through of the federal financial-aid form: a family making $75,000 a year might have to pay about $10,000 a year toward the cost of college before qualifying for need-based aid.
It also allows low-income parents who are in college to qualify for subsidized day care for the hours they are in school, just as they do for the hours when they work.
