Appeal to get Merit scholarship?

ArtistDad
Tue, 17 Mar 2015 02:19:03 +0000

Merit Aid is basically a discount on tuition. Schools use it to lure highly desirable students to their campuses. If they give out too much merit aid, they are headed for serious financial trouble. Many small colleges are in danger of closing partly because they have relied too much on tuition discounts to lure students. Big crunch is coming soon. Many small colleges will close. Chapman, with a really small endowment, is heavily tuition dependent. So it doesn’t surprise me at all that they are inflexible with merit aid.