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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a little surprised they don’t give better merit. They have a fairly substantial endowment. [/quote]

I suspect that UR uses its merit aid to increase URM on campus (other small schools in the South do this as well). Everyone we know who has gotten merit from UR is an URM. [/quote]

Nonsense.

I mean, you do know that universities use merit scholarships to recruit students that they would otherwise have a hard time getting? And that prior to the Supreme Court decision 2 or 3 years ago, merit scholarships limited exclusively to minorities were really common? If the University of Richmond has a really small minority population, using merit money as a recruitment tool to increase its minority population would actually be a smart move - a move that many other universities have used in the past.  To do so explicitly would probably now be illegal, but it’s not nonsense to think that URM status is still considered in one way or the other.

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