| This is certainly consist. w/ Mini's post re: other colleges giving a large number of small awards to families w/ little need.
I'm glad that Smith puts its money where its mouth is, and I certainly wouldn't want Smith to cut its Pell recipients by half to fall into step with the others schools. But it seems pretty obvious that, with sub/urban northeast families of four earning $140K to $180K (painfully middle class for that area) figuring prominently in the candidate pool of all the listed above, a school offering those families a few thou $$ - - as grant aid, merit $ or lower sticker price - - will succeed in luring not-insignif numbers of those families from more expensive peer institutions. |