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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Emory anyone's first choice?[/quote]

https://college.emory.edu/scholars/[/quote]

Ahh...so if they pay people to go there, Emory is a first choice.  Got it.[/quote]

In some cases. But, many students target schools which offer significant merit scholarship money as a first choice school. [/quote]

A school like Emory will do that because it doesn't have the cache to attract those students otherwise.[/quote]
Duke also has scholarships as well as Northwestern. I'm curious as to why PP chose to pick on Emory? WashU, Rice, USC, Carnegie Mellon etc are all ranked ahead of Williams College on the WSJ ranking. [/quote]

Northwestern merit scholarships must be new within the past 2 or 3 years. Might have been created as part of a reaction to two issues:

1) Fear of taxation of large college & university endowments which was / is being pushed by a longtime US Senator from Iowa;

2) In reaction to the current anti-trust litigation against 16 elite universities (including 6 of the 8 Ivies) regarding alleged cartel like collusion on need based financial aid.

Defendant universities are: Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth College, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Yale, Duke, MIT, Chicago, Emory, Northwestern, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Rice, and Georgetown.

The defendant universities thought that they were exempted from antitrust laws under an exemption numbered 568.

Northwestern is awarding financial aid in an even more generous fashion than it did prior to the discussions involving the two topics that I noted above.

https://bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/antitrust-suit-could-cost-elite-universities-billions/

The good news is that all of these 17 super-elite universities can afford to pay any such judgment--except for Georgetown University since its endowment is much small than that of the other defendant universities.
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