Marquis Fellowship

dodgersmom
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:55:11 +0000

Sorry, @lola827, but how exactly is Lafayette “driving away” some of its most competitive students? By not offering them all Marquis scholarships and fellowships? I’d think it’s pretty clear that’s not an option.

Alabama is doing the same thing - throwing money at high stat’s candidates to entice them to attend Alabama. They have deep pockets (look at the charts [url=http://grapevine.illinoisstate.edu/]here[/url] of state per capita spending on high education), so they can afford to guarantee their awards for all students with scores/GPA’s above a certain cutoff. But those aren’t the only awards available. A handful of the students accepted into one highly selective honors program are offered an additional scholarship as well . . . but only a handful. If not getting that scholarship makes attending Alabama unaffordable, then you go somewhere else.

The same is true at Lafayette - for some students, it’s simply not going to be affordable without the Marquis scholarship or fellowship. So you hope for the best . . . and have other options waiting in the wings in the event it doesn’t work out.