<p>Not sure why you would suggest the OP call admissions. What is she going to ask? For her chances? They aren’t (obviously) going to tell her that. For information on how they decide who to give merit scholarships to? They certainly aren’t going to give our that information, they want to reserve the right to use that money to tempt the students they want the most and wouldn’t divulge their method for that to a student who called and asked. I think you are quite naive about this. MHC is a lovely, fairly genteel place. But they are a college, and not a little island that is immune from the various pressures that buffet all colleges these days. They behave pretty much like most other colleges near their level of ranking.</p>