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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which school offered the best financial aid package to your student?

Did your child attend or decline the offer? [/quote]
TLDR:  Check out Alabama Honors program

There are always a handful of schools trying to bring high stat kids in with merit aid.

In my day it was places like USC, Notre Dame and Rice (I graduated in the 1980s). 
USC and Notre Dame used that foozball money and publicity to buy their way into academic selectivity.

Alabama seems to be following that formula.
Their honors program is trying to buy high stat kids for what sounds like a pretty good program.

This is unusual because state schools generally have all fallen (especially in the rust belt with places like Michigan, UIUC and Wisconsin.  Cal is a different case because they seem to have intentionally sacrificed academic selectivity to be more of an engine of social mobility).

Northeastern has clawed its way into academic relevancy with merit aid, I don't know if they still do that these days.
Wash U has sort of done something similar to Rice.

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