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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked Bates a lot when we visited.  It has a great vibe.  My DD is applying. However … Bates and Colby are the lowest-ranking LACs that don’t give merit aid, and Colby has a much higher endowment. Thus, Bates is very incentivized to take full-pay kids in ED, even if they have fairly unexceptional stats. I’m hard-pressed to see how Bates is worth the money compared to schools like Macalester, Conn, Trinity, Skidmore, Kenyon, Denison, Union, F&M, etc., that offer $30k or more per year in merit aid. I certainly would advise my own kid to follow the money if choosing between those schools or Bates or Colby full price.

I think Bates should strongly consider offering merit aid to shore up its student quality. Even $15k a year could be enough to get a top-stats kid to choose Bates over, say, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Vassar, or Midd. [/quote]

And guess what - there are a lot of people who are full pay who deep down kind of like it that way. They don't want to send their kids to schools full of kids on tons of aid. Not a priority. As long as there is a critical mass.[/quote]

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