The effect of increasing merit aid on one college
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Joseph Urgo, president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on the effect of its bidding wars with other colleges, in which it offers ever-higher levels of merit aid to lure top student candidates:
“We’re wasting billions of dollars nationally competing for kids. But we can’t stop it.”
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