why not put this under investment? NY Times reports about some odd student aid activity at Syracuse, seems like some bizarre miscalculations on their part leading to odd behavior.
They give the example of kids who didn't get offers of much student aid from Syracuse so they chose other schools....but Syracuse had seemingly misunderestimated their attractiveness, and suddenly they started throwing various scholarships at kids, first $10K then $20k then another $10k, up to $200k in total for four years, in an attempt to get kids to switch. The kids in the article did not switch. Syracuse isn't saying much (they had previously said they had a record number of applications) but it seems apparent they lowballed a whole lot of people and now finding themselves in a scramble to enroll kids.
Also unknown in this is what effect the current foreign student conundrum may have played in their deliberations.
In some cases kids were bewildered saying they neither wanted nor needed the new extra money Syracuse was throwing at them.
I guess someone miscalculated.