Mathematical Programming Models for Determining Freshman Scholarship Offers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Leon Seligsberger White

9780366494149: Mathematical Programming Models for Determining Freshman Scholarship Offers (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0366494147 ISBN 13: 9780366494149

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Explore how universities can shape freshman scholarship offers with math .

This book builds a structured approach to modeling financial aid decisions, translating real-world policy into clear, testable formulas that balance yield, quality, and cost.

The work starts by framing the scholarship process as a descriptive model, linking student need, outside aid, and university aid. It then presents a general optimization framework to compare policies, and derives a practical quadratic programming formulation that can be solved by computer. A focused section extends the model to cases with upper limits on non-scholarship aid, showing how constraints affect optimal offers. Throughout, the text emphasizes how to measure outcomes like enrollment, student quality, and financial impact.

Understand how to quantify need, outside aid, and university scholarships in a coherent model
See how to turn policy questions into an optimization problem
Learn how a quadratic program can yield the best mix of offers under constraints
Discover how upper limits on non-scholarship aid change recommended strategies

Ideal for readers of applied optimization and higher-education policy, this edition offers a practical toolkit for evaluating freshman scholarship decisions.

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