UND markets itself and recruits aggressively in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Nevada, states in which there are more high school graduates than universities to take them. The school also has full-time recruiters working in Minnesota. However, Hoffert said, no targeted financial inducements are used beyond those efforts. "We've been in this business almost 125 years now," Hoffert said. "We have always attracted North Dakota's best and brightest, and we've never had any need to use scholarships targeting specific states." Russell said she's not heard any negative comments about MSU's new scholarships from university officials or enrollment managers from North Dakota or other nearby population-poor
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