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[quote=Anonymous]No, we know kids who receive money through the Black Student Fund. That is not under the table, it is not anonymous, and that is not simply a semantic difference. You are saying that your niece found multiple private schools who explicitly went against the information they publicly provide (need based aid only) to find donors to fund part of her education secretly because the school wanted another likely NMS finalist in a few years? I think it is telling that you won't name the school and I do think this is problematic if schools are doing an end around of their own publicly described missions/standards. It's not problematic to give money based on merit, like I said I think that is great. I do think it is problematic for it to be semi-deceitfully done to the point that you think naming the schools would be a violation in some way.

And yes, athletes are recruited but the money for them is coming from the FA pool usually. Parents at the school can sit on the FA committee and get more involved if they don't like that. It's also fairly clear which schools are paying for play and people can make decisions about whether to send their kids there on that basis if they want. I would absolutely support DC's school giving merit scholarships. That would be great. I can't get on board with some idea that I should be happy if the school is doing stuff in back rooms and the merit scholarships are some hidden super-secret thing no one is supposed to talk about.

Maybe 22:47 is right and you are not referring to the schools people lump in the "bigs" but you kind of implied that when you said it was untrue that those groups don't offer merit scholarships that don't touch the FA pool. If it is untrue, name the schools, you said there were several. [/quote]

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