What is wrong with IU's Financial Aid?

bthomp1
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:25:32 +0000

IUB is part of a statewide system. Probably everybody in the state lives within an hours drive of an IU regional campus or a big state school like Purdue, Indiana State, Ball State. IUB is under no obligation to give non-merit aid when in-state students have the option to go to state school campuses that they can commute to. Your sister is in a need-based situation, and the regional campuses and other state schools may be her best option. 25% of the people who go to the regional campuses could get into IUB but they can’t afford it and don’t have the stats to get significant merit aid from IUB. You are comparing apples to oranges by comparing aid at IUB and Chicago. All aid at Chicago is de facto merit aid because if you were not merit aid worthy, you wouldn’t have got into UChicago in the first place.