BLACK STUDENTS BECOME TARGETS OF BIDDING WAR

[摘要] A financial-aid bidding war for top black students has broken out among colleges, yielding generous scholarships and some knotty questions of equity in an era of scarce academic resources.Eager to diversify the racial profile of their student bodies, colleges are offering unprecedented sums to academically talented blacks, admissions officers say. Many of the awards are not based on need but on merit, causing some colleges to questions whether the trend is diverting aid dollars from poorer students."It's deeply troubling to me," says Neil Rudenstine, Harvard University's president. "It’s a situation that looks like it could develop into a system that doesn't pay attention to the real needs of families and students."Instead of partial scholarships, awards covering all costs—more than $20,000 at some private school—are becoming more common.

[学科分类] 儿科学