Full pay made a difference in admissions?

[Anonymous]

If you or your child were or are full pay, did it make a difference in admissions outcome? How do you know?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, but you can't buy your way in just by being full pay.

[Anonymous]

NPC calculator said we were full pay

[Anonymous]

We are full pay and I don’t think it made a difference. Two kids - 2023 and 2026

[Anonymous]

Why do you think it would. That makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

One T20 called us to ask if we truly didn’t need FA, we said we didn’t, week later kid got acceptance from deferral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One T20 called us to ask if we truly didn’t need FA, we said we didn’t, week later kid got acceptance from deferral.

Lie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are full pay and I don’t think it made a difference. Two kids - 2023 and 2026

Where did they get in? Stats?

[Anonymous]

Read somewhere that most/all schools are need aware when taking from waitlist. Full pay will get you off

[Anonymous]

There’s literally no way to know this unless an admissions rep explicitly told you it played a part — and I doubt that ever happens.

[Anonymous]

Some schools have said they are need aware. Full pay should benefit

[Anonymous]

Even need blind schools that need full need and are blind in choosing applicants.. are NOT need blind in forming the CLASS.

That’s the fine print.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you or your child were or are full pay, did it make a difference in admissions outcome? How do you know?

My kids are full pay and they did well in admissions. But I would be guessing that it had an impact. How would an applicant ever know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools have said they are need aware. Full pay should benefit

Even need-aware schools give some aid. There’s no way to know for a specific student whether being full pay made a difference, and that they would NOT have gotten an acceptance if they weren’t full pay.

[Anonymous]

I have written this several times on here but a family member of mine is the Director of Financial Aid at a top10 school and says that "need blind" at their school is indeed 100% need blind. Their office is handed a list of accepted students and they match aid packages to the students.

Development cases (giving above the cost of attendance) is a different situation as is the admissions committee preferentially admitting from private schools or expensive zip codes.