<p>“I’m sure USC admission Officers are trained and sophisticated enough to know who can pay full pay and who cannot. Especially if they are the ones that going to make decision on who to award the trustee scholarships. Take for example, someone attend a high school from one of the richest area versus someone attend a high school from a rural area.”</p>
<p>And I’M sure that ONCE AGAIN, you are making assumptions, based NOT ON THE FACTS, but on your beliefs. We live in one of the " richest areas" yet have lived there all our lives, and I inherited the house we live in. Can you guess what our income is? And what we could afford to pay? No? I didn’t think so. </p>
<p>And based on this post:
“As for who does the scholarship interviews, It is two faculty members and a current Trustee/Presidential scholar. Then each school chooses their scholarship recipients - not the financial aid dept.”
it becomes clear that the FA dept has NOTHING to do with deciding WHO is offered a Trustee scholarship. It also helps explain why some qualified students don’t make the cut, especially if there are more “qualified” students applying to a particular school- like Vertibi, than scholarships available to that particular school.</p>
<p>You can continue to argue based on what ever beliefs you have, but I have other threads I’m more interested in…</p>