Competing colleges offer aid to seniors without need
They are, suddenly, the new celebrities of high schools across the country: students with spectacular college-board scores and report cards full of A's. This spring many leading colleges are pursuing the star seniors as never before, offering scholarships based on achievement, talent and promise rather than on financial need. Says Thomas Bertrand, secretary of Atlanta's Emory University: "Top students are recruited these days in the same way football players are." Declares Dartmouth Financial Aid Director Harland Hoisington: "You have people bidding now."
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