<p>I think its right not to change the rules in the middle of an application year. But I'm not clear how getting rid of the Axeline changed any rule. Axeline's were chosen by some formula within Caltech that was known only to Caltech, unlike Mudd's merit scholarships given to anyone with SAT scores above a certain number. No one applied to Caltech knowing they were going to get an Axeline or for that matter even knowing how much financial aid they would get. Sure there are all kinds of financial aid estimators out there and one can estimate and hope for the best. But until the financial aid offer is received, one doesn't know what any school is going to give. From reading threads across collegeconfidential it seems to me at any school financial aid offers vary from person to person from school to school. I know for our family, financial aid offers varied a lot from school to school and we were all thankful Caltech finaid offer made it affordable for us. And families all make different choices, from #Theorymom's choice that her son will attend a school that makes financial sense to crazymom who seems (at least from her posts) to be angry over the financial aid offer that her family accepted from Caltech. But it was a choice. </p>
<p>And with that, I'm leaving cc. Tired of listening to crazymom's rants.</p>