How good is the financial aid at Duke?

objobs
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:15:18 +0000

SBR:

I’d like to point out that the FA system [isn’t] exactly hush hush.



According to plumazul and some other Duke admitted students, it’s isn’t exactly out in the open either:



plumazul:

Duke has a problem with socioeconomic diversity, THAT’S a fact. Duke has admitted it, and they have expressed a desire to do something about it. That’s good, I wish them luck and hope that in the next decade they make progress towards that goal.

For the apologist in this thread, … your argument should be NOT be with people posting simple facts … if you don’t believe these facts, go argue with the Duke administration …
Maybe you can convince them that everything is fine the way it is, … as I’ve said before, it’s a private school, they can run it anyway they want, however, they DO need to fix certain wording on their website and in their literature …



http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064882735-post52.html



SBR:

As for Brown, I’ll point out that despite a much better FA policy and similar size of student body, Duke spent $86million last year on need-based FA while Brown spent around $70million.



Duke has a $4.4B endowment; Brown’s is only $2B. So percentage-wise, Brown is spending about twice as much of its endowment on FA as Duke. Which school do you think demonstrates a higher commitment to affordability and socioeconomic diversity?