The provision of only need-based aid rather than assisting all qualified students weighs heavily on my daughter and is making her decision to attend ND quite hard.
From her perspective, and she's more social justice oriented than I am, it's wasteful to spend ND money when you can spend a fraction of that and attend a fairly comparable school offering significant money. She likes the idea of legacy, but is legacy worth the premium and is it morally responsible?
From my perspective, and I'm much more materialistic, I view it as the opportunity cost of the money and what else she could do with it to launch her life.
Knowing some guys who work for ND, they are true believers (not unlike the people who work at Disney), and rather than recognize the greed for what it is, they view it as in furtherance of the mission.
As someone who has a daughter trying to decide on whether to attend ND, I agree.
Replies to: "As someone who has a daughter trying to decide on whether to attend ND, I agree."
- Trump’s actions against Harvard are 100% illegal. But he will ignore court rulings. [LINK]
- Chris94 - 8:55am 4/17/25
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- with rare exceptions, there is no reason for the federal govt to give any college funding. [NT]
- WestCoastIrishFan - 11:41am 4/17/25
- False and extremely stupid [NT] - Death - 2:36pm 4/17/25
- Tax exemption has value. Want to keep it/get Fed funding? Stay neutral. Simple. [NT]
- LanceManion - 9:27am 4/17/25
- Jesus doesn't vote. But Jesus does! [NT] - Tenacious_P - 2:47pm 4/18/25
- Just ask Bob Jones University. [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 9:30am 4/17/25
- Sounds like Harvard may be losing it along with dozens of other schools [NT] - holybull101 - 12:43pm 4/17/25
- If the issue is admissions and race, they likely do lose. That’s not though what the dear leader is - Frank L - 10:37am 4/17/25
- Yep. Sadly, ND may get swept up in this. If so, bye bye "need based tuition". - LanceManion - 9:36am 4/17/25
- Only greed could possibly justify this. The endowment is $20B. - jakers - 9:54am 4/17/25
- As someone who has a daughter trying to decide on whether to attend ND, I agree. - LanceManion - 12:19pm 4/17/25
- There was a general philosophy by the Administration when I was there. - jakers - 4:46pm 4/17/25
- I think the admin has opened up much more on the need side, but remains careful with "need" - LanceManion - 6:36pm 4/17/25
- She shouldn’t go then. Easy peasy. - Frank L - 12:32pm 4/17/25
- You gave the right advice. The allure of the school is hard to pass up, but it's not an Ivy. [NT]
- LanceManion - 12:43pm 4/17/25
- It’s not. But he doesn’t regret it. - Frank L - 2:02pm 4/17/25
- Yeah, same for me - met the wife, provided a good living, etc. But it is the principle, dammit. [NT] - LanceManion - 3:55pm 4/17/25
- It’s not. But he doesn’t regret it. - Frank L - 2:02pm 4/17/25
- You gave the right advice. The allure of the school is hard to pass up, but it's not an Ivy. [NT]
- LanceManion - 12:43pm 4/17/25
- There was a general philosophy by the Administration when I was there. - jakers - 4:46pm 4/17/25
- As someone who has a daughter trying to decide on whether to attend ND, I agree. - LanceManion - 12:19pm 4/17/25
- Only greed could possibly justify this. The endowment is $20B. - jakers - 9:54am 4/17/25
- Here’s the best part of the Harvard kerfuffle [NT]
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- Curly1918 - 9:04am 4/17/25
- Do you how you can tell if someone went to Harvard? - Chris94 - 9:06am 4/17/25
- Hell. I brag that I got wait listed by Harvard. - Curly1918 - 9:11am 4/17/25
- Do you how you can tell if someone went to Harvard? - Chris94 - 9:06am 4/17/25
- Hilarious, were you asleep during the sleepy Joe regime? - PaND - 9:02am 4/17/25
- It didn’t happen but why stop retelling a favorite lie? [NT] - jimbasil - 9:31am 4/17/25
- with rare exceptions, there is no reason for the federal govt to give any college funding. [NT]
- WestCoastIrishFan - 11:41am 4/17/25