The
Huffington Post reports that low-income students receive less merit-based aid,
as colleges fear that awarding merit to lower income students would mar the
results of the college ranking system, the U.S. News & World Report. Many colleges search for higher income
suburbs, where they can offer several bright students less in merit awards yet
still maintain their high rankings, rather than awarding one bright
lower-income student a larger dollar amount.
The
fact that colleges still seek out their best in affluent suburbs and only those
alone is disconcerting. Our educational
institutions have become so corporatized and strong-armed that I think these
institutions aren’t even thinking about the students anymore. Shouldn’t education be about “creating opportunities
for the nation’s needy” and not specifically for those with great financial
wealth? This capitalistic, corporate,
greedy mentality is one I will never understand.
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