How good is the financial aid at Duke?

SBR
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:24:05 +0000

What I said is actually not mutually exclusive.

I never doubted that Brown has such a commitment. That’s wonderful for Brown. But the fact of the matter is that apparently it’s not costing Brown much to make that commitment at all. If Duke spends $86M a year and you still think it’s insufficient (with its lower standards) to achieve socioeconomic diversity, then how much more would Brown have to commit (with its drastically higher standards) if your vision of socioeconomic diversity is achieved? This calls into question how much that commitment is making its intended impact at the present time.

You seem to at least imply in your posts that such a commitment is automatically good for socioeconomic diversity, I’m observing that in the example that you set forth of a university with such a commitment, the figures make it unlikely that a significant impact can be observed at least from a cursory quantitative perspective.

Edit: au revoir then, it was a pleasure