The effect of increasing merit aid on one college

Joseph Urgo, president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on the effect of its bidding wars with other colleges, in which it offers ever-higher levels of merit aid to lure top student candidates:

“We’re wasting billions of dollars nationally competing for kids. But we can’t stop it.”

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