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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Focus on these LACs - GIVE MERIT AID:
Macalester
[b]Occidental[/b]
Colorado College
Kenyon
Grinnell
Oberlin
Bryn Mawr
Mount Holyoke
Scripps
St. Olaf

SKIP these LACs that give NO MERIT AID:
Swarthmore
Reed
Carleton
Bowdoin
Williams
Vassar
Wesleyan
Pitzer
Pomona
Harvey Mud
Claremont McKenna

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Beware. Occidental is offering a $15k “Occidental Commitment Scholarship” to anyone who will ED because it is desperate to boost its yield because there were not enough qualified candidates to fill last fall’s class. The school reacted with cost cutting measures across the board and new marketing gimmicks in admissions - the “Occidental College Commitment Scholarship” was one such move announced in November to work to guarantee a full class. https://www.oxy.edu/about-oxy/college-leadership/presidents-office/community-messages/falls-incoming-first-year-class[/quote]

Lots of schools are doing similar things to try to boost yield. Every LAC other than the top 10 or so are fighting for good students who are willing to pay $50k-$60k per year.  Even Grinnell, which is ranked near the top 10, promises merit aid if you apply ED.  Occidental is in no danger of closing any time soon.

And literally every school is implementing austerity measures right now. DH works at Princeton and it’s happening there in a big way. [/quote]

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