"Matching" financial aid packages

Paying for College
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<p>I am told (by my mother, who has researched this a lot more than I have) that Stanford University will match the financial aid package offered to an admitted student by the student's flagship state university. </p>

<p>Question #1: Has anybody heard of any other colleges (specifically, one of the following: Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Dartmouth, Carleton) that do this?</p>

<p>Question #2: My flagship state U just nixed tuition for students whose families make the income that mine does! <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/mediarel/news/promise.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://depts.washington.edu/mediarel/news/promise.shtml&lt;/a> Whoo-hoo! (Not actually a question... eh...:D)</p>

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<p>My mom says it's a very common practice, so maybe this question (well, #1 at least) is unnecessary. Oh well. :)</p>