At what top school is full pay still a hook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you share the schools you are trying to figure out?

Sure. Junior kid so list in formation - need to see a lot of these and he goes to one of those high school that limit apps to 10 so the reaches will be edited down - but:

Harvard
UPenn
Cornell
Georgetown
Vandy
ND
Rice
Northwestern
BU
GWU
Denison
UChicago
Tufts
USC
Bing
MI
WI
Ohio State

Not going to be a hook. Those are all very good schools that are need blind.

The exceptions would be the last three - the publics. Michigan in particular seems to like full pay OOS students who're willing to pay double what in state is paying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even need blind institutions seem to kinda know if you are full pay or not... miraculously they end up with the same percentage of students receiving financial aid year after year. They look at zip code, high school, etc.

They give token amounts to manipulate the percentages.

[Anonymous]

Haverford
Oberlin (if you consider that top)

[Anonymous]

I’m guessing it helps at Emory. It’s the only way I can make sense of a couple of the acceptances I’ve seen.