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Sharaf, one of 10 Cabot House residents admitted to Stillman for a hospital stay after last month's outbreak of viral gastroenteritis, said she was unaware that her stay would not be covered under the UHS fee, required of all students as part of the tuition package...
...their tuition package, students can choose either to be covered under Harvard's Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plan or to sign a waiver saying that they wish to be covered under their parents' insurance...
...first, the collapse of the scholarship cartel seemed a good thing. With tuition at private colleges soaring nearly 75% during the 1990s alone, a little price competition among them seemed in order. In fact, market forces had been at work in college admissions for at least a couple of decades among the less competitive institutions, some of which needed to charge lower prices just to fill their classrooms. But since the lawsuit, a growing number of selective colleges--those whose applicants outnumber their available slots--have begun offering financial incentives regardless of need...
...Many dodge the discount label by proffering merit scholarships that are endowed by private donors and have set qualifications: Emory offers the Scholars Program; Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., has its Honorary Scholars program. The private University of Rochester offers any New York State resident a $5,000 tuition break--one that just happens to make Rochester financially competitive with the better of the campuses of the State University of New York, to which it often loses applicants...
...America's higher-education system, considered the most diversified on earth, is valued precisely because of its full menu of choices--from small Bible colleges to world-class universities. If the tuition wars spread further, that diversity will suffer. "In the short term," observes Dickinson's Massa, the merit-scholarship bidding "benefits colleges because we get our numbers. But if as a result we're not able to build new buildings or pay professors, it will cost us our future...