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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Took DC on tours of many colleges this spring.

After an info session at one Top 20 National University that purports to be Need Blind in admissions and Meets-Full-Need with respect to Financial Aid, I asked how exactly they implement their Need Blind admissions policy.  Specifically asked whether the AOs during admissions review could see the box on the Common App where the applicant indicates whether or not they intend to seek financial aid.  The answer:  Yes, we can see it, but we don't let that factor into our admissions decision.

Subsequently visited a Top 5 LAC, also purportedly Need Blind.  Asked the exact same question, and got the exact same answer.  The AOs can see which applicants will be seeking Financial Aid, although they claim to not be privy to information about who actually qualifies for aid and how much.

Interestingly, both of these schools told me that they "shade out", or make invisible to AOs, the box on the Common App where race is indicated, in order not to run afoul of the Supreme Court's ruling a couple of years ago that race cannot be considered in admissions decisions. So, these schools have the technical capability of shading out certain boxes on the Common App from admissions reviewers, if they so choose.

But they don't shade out the "intend to seek financial aid" box on the Common App, even though they claim to be Need Blind.  This leads me to conclude their claims of being Need Blind are a farce.

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I think a lot of them are truly need blind for the students they love but need blurry and legalistic for the students they could tolerate.

If your kid truly belongs at a Top 40 school and you truly saved as well as you  should have, you’ll probably be able to send your kid with there with work-study, guaranteed student loans and redirection of the cash you’ve already been spending on your kid.

If the school truly loves your kid, the school may make up for the fact that you didn’t save as much as expected.

If the school is lukewarm about your kid, you’ll have to tolerate a lower standard of living to send your kid to the school. The school will hold you to what the aid calculator says you should pay without mercy. [/quote]

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