<p>Balance,</p>
<p>Just because your friend got 28k does not mean that every international or every female applicant got that kind of money. She might have the ONLY scholarship like that at WPI.</p>
<p>Unless WPI publishes its financial aid and scholarship policies on its website, you have no way to know what the criteria were for determining that your friend would qualify for that kind of aid. Don’t waste your energy trying to understand it. Move on.</p>