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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top private universities receive more public funds than public universities. [/quote]

Source? And is that more $$$ per student, or more $$$ overall. [/quote]

"Harvard, Princeton, Yale -- and all the other members of the Ivy League, for that matter -- were also given 5 to 8 times the median to pay their students in work-study jobs. That is money the institutions got directly, to be spent on behalf of needy students.

And they got 5 to 20 times the median amount of grant money to look after the everyday needs of their poor students, despite having some of the largest endowments in the nation, if not the world. (Harvard and Yale both have endowments of more than $10 billion. Princeton's is $8.7 billion.)

Such disparities have been a sore point among universities for years, leftovers from an era when federal money was given to colleges on an individual, almost negotiable basis. Now, for the first time in more than two decades, the nation's financial aid officers are calling for the imbalances to be wiped away, replaced by a system that steers financial aid toward the universities that poor students actually attend, rather than those with the biggest reputations."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/us/rich-colleges-receiving-richest-share-of-us-aid.html

The above is just financial aid funds. My guess is that federal research funds distribution would be even worse between major private universities and major public universities.[/quote]

Yes, but research funding is generally for graduate school.  Graduate school admission for research degrees is IMO much more of a meritocracy.  Professors want the best students they can exploit for 5-7 years.[/quote]

Yes research funding is generally for graduate schools but the point is that the private universities receive not only vastly more federal aid money but also vastly more federal research money as institutions.

This point is made to respond to various comment
s that say private universities (as opposed to public universities) should do what ever they want to do since they do not receive public funds.   [/quote]

Very interesting article, PP.  I'm one of the posters who believes that private universities should get to pick the students they want.    I was unaware of the inequity in public funding, but that does seem unfair.

Still seems like too separate issues though.  The funding thing isn't fair and should be corrected. But I don't see how more provisions for lower income kids have anything to do with discriminating against Asians students.
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