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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as I am aware, there are no schools locally that are need blind in admissions [u]and[/u] commit to meeting financial need.  No one can really do that without having major issues.  So there are two approaches that schools take on how to handle admissions when there is a limited amount of aid.  Some schools (the need blind ones) make admissions decisions without regard to ability to pay.  They then decide among those who are admitted how to distribute the financial aid available.  It may or may not be given to you as an admitted student.  As a practical matter what that means is that a student/family may know that he got admitted but be unable to attend.  It also means that a family who has a potential way to make the dollars work without aid will know that the child was admitted and can decide to attend without aid or without full aid.  The second approach is to make admissions not need blind and admit only those students seeking aid whose need can be met.  The upside of this approach is that you avoid the disappointment of getting into the school but not being able to attend because of money.  The downside is that a student will never know that they would have gotten admitted on their merits and it cuts off the opportunity for students to seek other ways to make the $$ work.  You can argue which approach is better for any given situation, but I think every school follows one of these approaches.  [/quote]
Which one of those is Sidwell’s policy?[/quote]

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