TAP
According to the NYS TAP
website, "
The New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) helps eligible New York residents pay tuition at approved schools in New York State. Depending on the academic year in which you begin study, an annual TAP award can be up to $5,165. Because TAP is a grant, it does not have to be paid back."
In the PTC TAP is measured in multiple ways:
- Via a flag indicating whether a student received TAP (tap_flag). Pulled from FINANCIAL_AID_AWARD_DIM, not calculated; therefore it may not completely match with TAP award or disbursement amounts.
- A set of variables measuring TAP awards and disbursement by fiscal year
- tap_awd_fy01 - tap_awd_fy10
- tap_dis_fy01 - tap_dis_fy10
- r_tap_dis_fy01 - r_tap_dis_fy10
It should be noted that CUNY does not control TAP disbursement. Because of this, we generate a recoded version of TAP disbursement (r_tap_dis_fy**) that is the same as the amount of TAP awarded.