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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There isn't that much merit aid out there, so applying broadly to find schools with merit aid makes sense. In that case ED isn't viable.  However, saying ED students are systematically shut out of merit consideration is different, and I don't believe it is a case.  [b]Schools have a responsibility to be even handed. [/b] E.g. a school with one amazing scholarship, they don't offer that money to lure one amazing kid, they use it to increase apps from amazing kids more broadly.  If the award ends up with someone who already was admitted ED it doesn't really change the benefit the school receives--more high stats students submitting applications.  What I do believe is special offers run out, so being pulled from a waitlist usually means full pay.  That asymmetry makes sense, leaving out the earliest applications from a scholarship process doesn't.[/quote]

Based on what? [/quote]

Fiduciary responsibility.  So for example the ED applicants are supposed to receive equal consideration for the W&L Johnson scholarship.  I'd think that's the rule, not the exception, if the scholarship is truly merit based, it should mean all students with apps in at award time are in the pool.[/quote]

There is nothing in the way of standards to suggest that schools have any responsibility to applicants to be fair, much less take fiduciary responsibility. Nothing whatsoever.[/quote]

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