Does Thomas Aquinas College Provide Merit Scholarships?
Thomas Aquinas College does not provide merit-based scholarships. All financial aid given by the College goes to students who have demonstrated financial need. The special character of our classroom method — where no distinction is made among students except by what each brings to bear in conversations and careful reading of texts — makes it inappropriate for the College to introduce a two-tiered classification of students in which some are formally distinguished in ability and therefore, inevitably, in authority. The teaching faculty of the College strongly believes such a distinction would be damaging to a free and fruitful flow of ideas where the only authority among participants is reasonable argument. Over the years, the College has seen many students become classroom leaders who would not have merited scholarships before beginning at Thomas Aquinas College. This development of students is something the College prizes and safeguards. At the same time, it may be noted that many o
