How good is the financial aid at Duke?

SBR
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:35:44 +0000

uhhhh…right plumazul

I’ll just point out that when I say hate I really mean what’s with your fixation on my posts. You seemed to have read insults and implications where there were none and decided to take great offense to it.

Congratulations, you are a 16 yo girls with a full ride and a bright future. I’ll leave it at that.

I never said I can’t stomach it, if I can’t take the posts of a 16yo then I wouldn’t be online at all. I’m just surprised at the venom and sarcasm that seems to be sprinkled throughout your posts.

Allow me to point out something though.

When I said that whole comment about irrelevance that you seems so intent on, I was pointing out the the priorities of student/alumni in endowing merit scholarships and questioning them has nothing to do with how Duke chooses to implement its FA policy.

Then I asked why all the hate because you seemed intent on thinking that I was personally attacking you with some unintended slight of some kind and that you needed to respond. Irrelevant? All right, then I apologize.

As for socioeconomic diversity, ok, my bad, Duke hasn’t made much progress. But then again, let’s not just single out Duke then:



This issue is not unique to Duke. Using the percentage of students receiving Pell grants as an indicator, only 6 to 16 percent of students come from low-income backgrounds at top private universities, according to a 2010 report released by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Since 2004, only seven out of the top 30 universities ranked by U.S. News & World Report have shown an increase in the percentage of such students.



So I’d say in that regard Duke might actually be par for the course. Certainly deserves more improvement (which Duke is working towards) but not something scandalous.

As for the terms “rich kids” what I don’t understand is that you seem to tie (or imply) all the ills of the university to the presence of these “rich kids” (whether or not it’s your term) when the only reason they have that moniker is that the majority of the student body does not fall in the lower half of the US income distribution. That says nothing about their impact as students on the school beyond socioeconomic diversity implications. Yet, you use the term in the context of a broad judgment on these “rich kids.”