Phoebe on Yale's financial aid policy: ...it's interesting, how more or less anyone who complains actually does end up with substantially more money (shows how they're putting every last cent they can spare into that financial aid budget)...they're fairly willing to placate individual complainers so long as they don't have to--or perhaps to ensure that they don't have to--broadly change the policy...i wonder what would be the response if everyone complained individually. The key now is that everyone - whatever their financial status - begin complaining and agitating collectively. And because Yale's policy is built on fostering a social expectation that class and financial aid not be discussed, resisting begins with fostering a community in which we can recognize common problems as such and reject Yale's perverse rat race mentality about aid awards which reeks of the false meritocracy evident in too many of our University's policies.