Financial Aid - home equity consideration

First and foremost congratulations on your daughter!! No easy accomplishment getting accepted but even more commendable that she appears to have taken full advantage of the opportunity.

While I find those responsible for Columbia’s seeming deceptions to be unethical and despicable I don’t think students were meaningfully harmed.

As an analogy, if I go to a restaurant based on numerous positive YELP reviews and thoroughly enjoyed the meal, I wouldn’t view myself as harmed if I later found out the reviews were self written. Would it cause me to question the owners ethics absolutely. But I go to a restaurant hoping to find a good chef and wait staff not a moral owner.

I think undoubtedly there are some culpable administrators at Columbia but the students who attended got exactly what they expected and paid for in the form of a world class education.

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