UChicago Financial Aid conundrum

annikasorrensen
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:01:17 +0000

Threads on public forums don’t die out because an OP goes away or wants the thread to fade away. That’s why it is always smart to use an anonymous name and not to reveal too much information about oneself. When a thread annoys you or outlives its purpose, whether you are the OP, a participant or lurker, the best and really only thing to do is stop clicking and reading the thread. It can be difficult to leave a forum chat thread and not know what is being babbled about after you leave, but that is the nature of this kind of forum.

As for my unasked for 2 cents, UChicago has a pool of money, it divided it up in a way to attract a certain pool of students knowing FULL WELL that the money would not be enough for some of the students. UChicago, like all colleges, know a certain percentage of accepted students will take other offers. I don’t think UChicago screwed up per se, and it will adjust the types of offers it makes next year based on how their yields went this year. Any notion of “will meet 100% of need” is basically baloney as we know and thank goodness the OP has at least one offer from Vandy that may fit that bill. No way does it make sense that colleges must or should be forced to meet 100% need for all students unless it wants to AND the college has the funds to make that a reality. Only a few colleges are even close to that reality these days.