Merit aid, uncommon 30 years ago, has grown into a dominant admissions tool at hundreds of private and public colleges seeking top students.
And in sports like baseball, soccer, wrestling or lacrosse, where most athletic scholarships are split into partial scholarships worth a half or a quarter of the cost to attend, it is not uncommon for an Ivy League financial aid package to be superior to the athletic scholarship.
In many scientific disciplines the use of a metaphor as an heuristic aid is not uncommon.
Uncommon physical characteristics help.
But he said that only 19percentt of the families at Concord receive any financial aid, a proportion not uncommon at other private schools; the remainder pay $22,800 annually for day school, or $29,200 including board.
Finally, it is not uncommon for course and treatment outcomes to aid with differential diagnosis.
Although primary mutations of PMS2 are uncommon, the inclusion of PMS2 immunohistochemistry may aid the identification of MLH1 germline mutations in MSI-H cancers that continue to express MLH1 (Thompson et al, 2004).
"As one commander said, 'We are blinded by our need".' It is uncommon in war for the "affected populations," as aid workers often call those who must live with the fighting, to turn down something free.
But Russian aid to North America and Western Europe is somewhat more uncommon.
Mona Girgis, an assistant country director for the aid agency Care International, says it is not uncommon for people to farm even where they know it is not safe.
It is not uncommon for Iraqis and Afghans to greet the Indian aid workers and technical consultants helping rebuild their nations with snatches of half-remembered Hindi songs and names of Bollywood stars from the 1970's.
