ABSTRACT
Susan, a senior student in our capstone class, presented her professors and classmates with this dilemma. She had been accepted into three graduate schools but hoped to attend the one that offered the best package of financial aid, assistantships, or stipends. Each school, she explained, required a student to commit or indicate an intention to attend that school before considering the financial aid package they could offer the student (this was her understanding of the communication she had from the grad schools).
