Aid lets smaller colleges ask, why pay for Ivy League retail?

Interesting article below from New York's Amherst Times about smaller private liberal arts colleges who are wooing students with larger merit scholarships in order to compete with lower cost public universities and the elite schools like Harvard and Princeton.

Amherst Times, written by Alan Finder, January 1, 2006 - Lindsey Mackney's choice of colleges came down to two very different places: Boston University, with its urban appeal and lively youth culture, or Allegheny College, a small, friendly liberal arts institution here in the rolling hills of northwest Pennsylvania.
Amherst Times

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