Universities offering deep discounts ...

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/your-money/syracuse-merit-aid.html

Article about Syracuse U. offering deeper and deeper discounts/merit aids to prospective students who have chosen other schools, presumably because Syracuse just realized that it has trouble filling its new class for being generally way too expensive, and the international students may not be coming.

[Horace]

What, you mean they're not on a shoe-string budget where they would end up losing money on a student if that student didn't pay what they had been asking? They can still make money at half the price? 25%? 10%?

[Axtremus]

Well, "making money" is a strong term; they are non-profits, after all.

[Axtremus]

Besides, what parents would want their little prodigies and geniuses go to a school that operates on a shoe string budget? Nay, their genius princes/princesses deserve only the most elite schools that are abundantly endowed with copiously resources to further their development into the perfect human beings.

[Mik]

Yes. Parents wanting the best for their kids is a blight on our society. It must be stopped so all will be EQUAL!

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in Universities offering deep discounts ...:

Parents wanting the best for their kids is a blight on our society. It must be stopped so all will be EQUAL!

Blasphemy!

[jon-nyc]

The article isn’t so much about ‘universities’. It’s about Syracuse being overly confident and having lost a game of chicken with its incoming freshman class.

[Axtremus]

Yes, but I put "universities" in the title anyway because I expect to see similar reports for other universities in the near future.

[89th]

I got my MBA from Syracuse, good school, but as I graduated I noticed there were more and more foreign students walking around campus. Personally I think the issue is the phrase "orange man bad" has hurt the feelings of the mascot, Otto the Orange.