How good is the financial aid at Duke?

objobs
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:50:14 +0000

warblersrule86:

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Originally Posted by objobs
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?

Oh, it’s not that simple. Duke has a mission to provide financial aid to ALL of its students - not just cater to the whims of its undergrads. After all, despite all the entitled huff and puff about undergraduates on CC, they’re really only a small part of a much larger university.



Of course, but the OP and the other students reading this thread in this COLLEGE forum are aspiring or current UNDERgraduates. So they don’t care why they’re getting less FA than their peers, only THAT they are.



warblersrule86:

What about all of the graduate students in arts & sciences, engineering, nursing, medicine, law, business, environmental science, divinity, and public policy? Do they not deserve funding as well?



Sure, they do. But again, why would this be remotely relevant to prospective or current COLLEGE students?

And if you’re going down this slippery slope, can you explain why Duke has relatively weaker FA than Columbia and Penn, despite the fact that each of these non-HYP Ivies has a greater number of graduate students than Duke?