Every private school and state school has offered my child merit-based scholarships, and while I have not yet received Michigan’s aid letter, I have been led to believe that it will be minimal if anything at all. So Michigan remains the outlier. The question of why needs to be asked. Surely Michigan, while an excellent school, ranks lower than many other schools, yet its indifference toward being competitive scholarship-wise continues to baffle, and to lose potential high caliber students with better offers.