| fencermother, your H is right. There is the whole business of enrollment management which tries to figure out the least number of dollars it will take to get a particular student to enroll.
I was just looking at an LAC which offers very nice diversity scholarships (for racial, geographic, religious, first generation or any combination of those) to enroll. I was very attracted because the bottom line with this award made the school exactly 1k less expensive than our instate flagship. Then I looked at airfare. When one considers the high airfare cost, one would need to budget 4k/year for airfare to be safe. There goes the big bargain. It is so well figured out! The incentive is just enough to look at the school, but not enough to make one jump either. Our son could attend equally good schools which are not as far away for just 2k more/year. Is that savings worth the distance, airport hassles, culture shock (another region of our country)? Nothing wrong with going to school in another region of the country from where one grew up, but this school would definitely mean culture shock, and one could feel out of place (which is why they are offering this scholarship in the first place, LOL). |