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Some schools have the paperwork sent to and processed by an outside agency entirely, and those are the ones I would assume have truely need-blind admissions. [/b]

Most schools are going to have the FA applicant send paperwork to an outside agency to crunch the numbers and spit out a "family contribution" figure.  In other words, "the family can contribue x dollars" based on their financials.

That information is then used to inform the school's FA decision process.  Some schools may have a two-track system to keep the FA decisionmakers separate from the admissions decisionmakers, but not all, particularly smaller schools.  Also, don't undersestimate that sometimes the FA package is negotiable and may be influenced by any number of factors, including the desire of the school to bring in a diversity applicant.  Of course, some view this as a "bad" outcome, while others view this as a natural consequence of a school attempting to live up to its mission of providing independent education to a wide range of children from varied socioeconomic backgrounds.[/quote]

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