(MONEY Magazine) – Your MONEY Guide: Best College Buys, 1993 edition, erroneously reported that Boston University provides only $290 in average gift aid per student. The accurate figure is approximately $4,200. Only 44 colleges, or less than 5% of the 1,000 on your list, had higher gift aid averages. Boston University is committed to aiding families who need assistance in order to send their children to college. Attracting and retaining students with superior academic talent regardless of finances is the underpinning of our education and aid philosophies. George A. Schiller Vice president for enrollment, Boston University

The Guide also understated the percentage of freshmen with high test scores at these schools (the correct figures are in parentheses): Clarkson (60%), University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (22%), College of William and Mary (85%). Additional Guide corrections: William Chace is the president of Wesleyan College; the telephone number for the Education Resources Institute is 800-255-8374; the Twentieth Century Balanced Fund's phone number is 800-345-2021; the five-year graduation rate at Allentown-St. Francis de Sales is 60%; the average gift aid per student is $6,156 at Bard; Mary Baldwin charges $9,960 for tuition and fees, $6,490 for room and board; Smith is a women's college; Lynn has dormitories; Rosemont should have been on our list , of Top Values for Women; Hobart (for men) and William Smith (for women) share the same faculty and facilities, but each college awards its own degrees.