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"Aid Changes Raise Issue of Diversity at Colleges" (news article, Dec. 1) missed one key point: Elite selective schools receive significant government support (from grants to special tax treatment) because of our country's commitment to equal opportunity and social mobility, and the role that education plays in supporting these goals. These schools spend the most per student and offer their students the largest subsidies, supported by these government policies.
When need-based aid is cut, we should be asking whether the savings are being used to hold down tuition or to increase merit aid. In both cases, this is just a transfer of resources from low-income students to high-income students.
There is no reason to think that an extra dollar spent on a high-income talented student will be more valuable to society than an extra dollar on a low-income, equally talented student. In fact, the government support is justified by helping those low-income students. Perhaps it should be tied to doing so.
CATHARINE HILL
President, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012
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