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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any school that offers DC a merit scholarship. It's a pretty good sign that the school is desperate for stronger students to boost their averages. Plus it redistributes money from needier students to families that don't need the financial help. [/quote]

Hilarious! We push our kids to succeed...and then don't want them rewarded for it! 
I assume you work in the non-profit sector?[/quote]

Top schools don't offer merit aid. Schools tend to offer merit aid to students that are better prepared than their average admit. Professors teach to the average admit. You just want to be careful that the classes aren't pitched at such as low level that your kid will be bored.

Signed, former professor[/quote]

Are you the person who keeps disparaging schools that provide merit aid for some bizarre reason? PLENTY of great schools give merit aid. Vanderbilt not good enough for you? Oberlin, Kenyon, Grinnell, Wash U? Schools of all shapes and sizes offer merit aid because their tuition is insanely high and they're competing for kids who get awards from elsewhere and and against much cheaper top-flight public universities.  It's one of the more glaring distortions in the college economic model, and it's true, many top schools (and some non-top schools) don't award merit aid, and end up with a mix of kids on need-based aid and kids who pay full freight -- and not a lot of middle of the road full-pay kids who go to state schools and colleges that offer merit aid. There are certainly cases where kids get huge awards from schools that are a notch below in rigor. But to frame the merit aid system as some sort of discount for struggling schools is unfair to the many folks who do benefit from the system, and to the schools that are looking for a way to compete in a screwed up market place for good students who have other options.

Signed, a parent who has had this conversation with several (current) college presidents.

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