Whose responsibility is it to fund your child’s college education?

[ucbalumnus]

@Creekland

After seeing a school that is notoriously bad for giving aid produce the best financial package for a student they obviously really wanted, I’ve modified what I tell students from “no sense applying to X” to “if you really want to go there you can see what happens, but understand that most applicants don’t get much in aid” (aka be careful dreaming).

This seems like preferential packaging, or embedded merit scholarship without explicitly calling it a merit scholarship.