Originally Posted by Bostonian
Originally Posted by aquinas
I'm toying with the idea of soliciting a few large corporate endowments and making the school 100% need-blind. That's my ultimate goal: to provide what public education SHOULD to HG+ students!

Apparently it's a shallow step up onto my soapbox. Sorry, Zen!
"Need-blind" often results in a high list price paid by rich kids, a low price paid by poor kids, and few upper middle class kids attending because their parents don't want to pay what the school thinks they can afford. So money still influences who attends. In our experience, Catholic schools do a good job of keeping the list price low for everyone, while also offering some need-based aid.

Sure, but it all depends on your price discrimination model. As you rightly point out with your Catholic schools example, a middle ground can exist. Most schools are still run with a quasi-for-profit motive; they just have high administrative expenses as an offset to high tuition fees.

What is to give light must endure burning.