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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you decide not to apply for FA, just drop a note to the admissions director.

Whether or not that is taken into account for admissions decisions likely depends on the school.  Obviously not everyone would be offered financial aid, but it may be offered for higher-income families than you imagine.  [/quote]

Agree that you can always notify them that you are not asking.  I do think that schools are mainly "need aware" and not "need blind" -- they just don't have the resources to be the latter.  Your scenario -- on the bubble as to whether you'd qualify -- is very different from someone who wants to game the system by getting admitted without FA and then asking for it later (I can't imagine this happens that much, though).  My sense is that schools consider their financial aid on a yearly basis, so I don't think you would be "locked out forever" if in a later you you wanted to apply for FA.  Whether or not they'd have the money to fit you in as an existing family would of course depend.[/quote]

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