"Financial Aid eBay" winners Set Off Scholarship Bidding Wars
A recent announcement by Cornell University may be the just what is needed to get students and parents to understand one of the worst-kept secrets in the college financial aid world: Students who get into several competing colleges usually get more scholarships than those who focus on just one "dream" college.
Cornell announced this summer that it would match the aid offers of admitted students who also got into other Ivy League colleges. In addition, it says it will "strive to also match the parenta
