Will you enroll or decline?

collegebound_09
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:31:50 +0000

y’know, this may be a “duh” statement or a “dumb” statement entirely, but I can’t help but feel an urge to attribute some of our merit aid losses to Madoff and his stealing from Carl Shapiro…I feel a little bad for the school because he was a BIG contributor/donator to the school, and he lost 9 figures to Madoff in his Ponzi scheme…I have a sinking feeling that the monies lost were sapped from merit aid and used to redistribute funds across the university.

My son and I have talked to probably 25 or so people in similar situations with Brandeis…and while this isn’t exactly a big number of students, the results are the same: they will decline enrollment into Brandeis.