<p>I know we've beat you up enough celloguy (and you've been most courteous) but I just have two responses to your last post (and I really did I think I was done with this thread).</p>
<p>First off, if your daughter had not received "full need-based aid" (good for her!) at her "best-fit college" what would you have done? What if she had gotten in, but received only 1/4 of her need? Would you have turned down merit aid? How would you have felt if she had had to settle for her fifth choice school because that was what you could afford?</p>
<p>Second...I don't know...but it sort of scalds me to hear about the "elite colleges" trying to reform the system -- the same system that feeds them the wealthiest of the wealthy? I think not. Perhaps they are stressed that "less elite" schools will buy students away from them. God forbid anybody encroach on their sacred ground.</p>