Future of Ivy Admissions?

cottonmather
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:34:29 +0000

To be sure, no two formulae are exactly alike, and anyone needful of financial aid is well advised to compare packages before selecting one school over another.

But the USNews chart is useful, nonetheless, to show what average aid packages are at each school, and what fraction of the admitted students get aid.

It looks like some schools advertising huge aid packages don’t go out of their way to recruit needy applicants, or at least are careful not to admit too many of them!