Questions about Indiana

Calcruzer
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:45:40 +0000

Under the rules for the scholarships that AimHigh listed, financial need is not being considered. Therefore, since only merit is being considered, the amount zoolander’s family makes neither helps nor hurts zoolander’s chances.

This is not true for other forms of financial aid–including most of the money being offered under FAFSA.

P.S. Giving what is essentially grants to encourage top students to attend a particular college–or stay in a particular state is not that unusual. For example, in my own home state of California, my son would have received much more in state grants (approximately $9,700 per year) had he enrolled in a private university that was in-state. A smaller amount would have been given had he gone to a public university in-state. Similar programs exist in Florida, Georgia, and, to a lesser level, in New York. If you’ll notice, Indiana is trying to do the same thing with their new programs also. Other states do essentially the same thing (in a different way) by keeping the in-state tuition low and giving preference to in-state students for admission to the public universities. Examples of states doing this are California (which does both things), Texas, North Carolina, New Jersey and Michigan–and the Illinois legislation wants the Univ of Illinois to start doing this also.