Merit vs. Need-blind marketing

mardad
Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:13:31 +0000

“What should the school have said instead?”
I think the answer was given in a subsequent post:
“In this case, the reason really is the principle of the thing. There are only “x” number of dollars and every dollar that is used for merit aid is a dollar that is NOT available for need-based aid to lower income students.”

Often it is not what is said but how it is said. Mark Twain’s wife once repeated back to him word for word the line of expletives he had uttered after cutting himself shaving. Twain responded, “You’ve go the words right, my dear, but you don’t quite have the melody.”