Advice to pay more money Middlebury v. Grinell

[wisteria100]

@arcadia - A lot of schools offer merit to be competitive with schools perhaps a notch above them on the food chain. They are trying to attract higher stats kids, who may have several offers from other schools and are trying to get them to commit with financial incentives. Some schools may not be need blind or meet 100% need, so they reserve some of the financial aid budget for merit.

The following is an an excerpt from an article about the Fordham faculty health care issue and presents the pov of a great many faculty members. To be taken with a grain of though for sure, because the faculty is arguing for more spending on faculty benefits, so is pointing out what they feel are misguided assets.

Fordham spent more than $5M to secure enrollment commitments from students with high SATs. The practice of buying SATs scores in an effort to up one’s rankings is one that some members of the faculty question.
This approach directs financial aid dollars from worthy students with genuine financial hardship to students whose wealthier families can better afford the university’s tuition—based on test scores that have long been shown to reproduce social and economic inequality.