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Just to remember the 1990s, Harvard was also shown to colluded with other good schools to maximize the number of scholarships awarded. For example, one might re
by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
Just to remember the 1990s, Harvard was also shown to colluded with other good schools to maximize the number of scholarships awarded. For example, one might receive a full scholarship from MIT or Harvard but not both.
As in that case, the activity leads to great discussions about what is fair, what are the goals of a university, and what may a private university choose?
- somecontext 8y agoFor some context in case anyone was curious, this New York Times article from 1991 discusses the collusion this post is presumably referring to: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/us/ivy-universities-deny-price-fixing-but-agree-to-avoid-it-in-the-future.html https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/us/ivy-universities-deny-... (Note that the purpose of the collusion was to price-fix to avoid competition, which is the exact opposite of the example given.)