Originally Posted by Bostonian
The obvious answer is that the most selective universities, including the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT, only offer "need-based" scholarships.

My brother-in-law got a significant scholarship to Duke, so Duke provides merit scholarships. It's fairly selective.

Then you're talking scholarship to Duke vs. Penn, for example.

Now that I think about it some more, he got into Harvard, so it was a question of 3/4 schoarship to Duke vs. no $$$ for Harvard.

Last edited by JonLaw; 08/25/11 04:42 AM. Reason: Comparing Harvard to Duke