--- title: Five Best: Why Wealthy Students Receive More Financial Aid description: Why wealthy students receive more college financial aid, self-driving cars might learn crash avoidance from bats and more. canonical: https://time.com/5060301/why-wealthy-students-receive-more-college-financial-aid/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-12T17:00:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:17.091Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Wealthy Students Receive More College Financial Aid og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5060301/why-wealthy-students-receive-more-college-financial-aid/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Wealthy Students Receive More College Financial Aid twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Wealthy Students Receive More College Financial Aid by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 12, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 12, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why are wealthy students receiving more college financial aid?**](https://www.revealnews.org/article/in-an-era-of-inequity-more-college-financial-aid-is-going-to-the-rich/) By Jon Marcus at _Reveal_ **2\.** [**Self-driving cars might learn crash avoidance from bats.**](https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-12-09/future-self-driving-technology-look-bats) By Julia Franz at _Science Friday_ **3\.** [**Everyone in the world should be taxed on their energy footprint.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/everyone-in-the-world-should-be-taxed-on-their-energy-footprint) By Iason Athanasiadis in _Aeon_ **4\.** [**Simply holding a child can have an impact on their genes — and their developmental progress.**](http://www.med.ubc.ca/holding-infants-or-not-can-leave-traces-on-their-genes/) By _University of British Columbia_ **5\.** [**This is why screen time before bed is bad for kids.**](http://news.psu.edu/story/496770/2017/12/05/research/screen-time-bed-linked-less-sleep-higher-bmis-kids) By Katie Bohn at _Penn State University_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5060301/why-wealthy-students-receive-more-college-financial-aid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5060301/why-wealthy-students-receive-more-college-financial-aid/"},"headline":"Why Wealthy Students Receive More College Financial Aid","datePublished":"2017-12-12T17:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:17.091Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5060301/why-wealthy-students-receive-more-college-financial-aid/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Children","Innovation","Education","Technology","energy","self-driving cars"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5060301/why-wealthy-students-receive-more-college-financial-aid/","name":"Why Wealthy Students Receive More College Financial Aid"}}]}] ```