<p>QUOTE=pugmadkate]I’m still puzzled as to why it’s down to these two schools. A student who could get into Cornell is a good candidate for a lot of other schools for merit aid. Or even without merit aid, they could easily find colleges that simply cost less.
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It’s NOT down to these two schools, but apparently it’s difficult for people to make comparisons across a whole list of possible places. So you get the hypothetical A vs B rather than the A vs B, C, D, E, F, G, H. :)</p>