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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will a 1450 Sat and HHI at 150 be enough to be considered for Kenyon granted scholarship/aid?[/quote]

Yes.[/quote]

I don’t think merit aid has anything to do with HHI but 1450 seems like it’s high enough for consideration if transcript is very strong [/quote]

Sometimes income (whether actual or a proxy like zip code) is considered for merit aid due to yield management. A donut hole family may be more easily persuaded by $20k than a very affluent one. [/quote]

Is this true? Merit aid is determined strategically and not based on, um, merit. [/quote]

Lots of people get merit without applying for aid though, so I'm not sure that's true.[/quote]

Google it. It doesn’t always work like this but if often does. There are articles written about it and the algorithms. More money means higher chance of yield so college might also prefer giving 30k (or better yet 25k) to one kid and zero to other than 15k to each.[/quote]

I get it. I wonder though if schools even consider merit as a variable rather than just taking the list of admitted students and asking the computer to predict which ones will be the best ones to target. So a marginal kid might get merit over an exceptional kid. But it does seem like exceptional kids tend to be the ones who get merit aid [/quote]

I think it’s a mix. They may need or want some top test scores. They may need kids to fill their class or have more certainty on their yield numbers.. They may want more full pays but with a little merit. They may want kids from Nebraska. They optimize their wishes with their finances and enrollment numbers. May lead to seemingly inexplicable results. [/quote]

I wish they would spend more time, effort and $ on kids from Nebraska.  Would make the place more interesting. Kenyon has basically become a satellite campus for DMV graduates.  Mind you my DD loves the place.  But her closest friends are all from the NE.  Feels exactly like her experience at her private school in this area, except much less economically and racially diverse.

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That may just be who they gravitate to. My DMV kid is there and their friends are from the Midwest and upper northwest. Unfortunately, no DMVers, which would have been nice to have if they returned home to this area after graduation. [/quote]

FWIW, the Kenyon alumni club in DC is large and active and lots of fun![/quote]

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