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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may well be right. And/or the counselors may be taking your finances into account and not setting your child up for disappointment if he got into, say, Yale and you couldn't afford to send him.

Also, I learned the hard way during my own college apps in the 90s that many private college are NOT need-blind. [/quote]

Wrong. A school like Yale is far more likely to be affordable to a family that qualifies for financial aid than another private or even public university. Schools with large endowments (HYP, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, etc.) have FA programs to provide not only full rides, but also grants rather than loans. The most elite private universities and colleges are indeed need blind, but with the exception of the like mentioned above, they will offer FA with lots of loans, rather than outright grants.

Unfortunately, without good college counseling, most people like you are led to believe that the most elite universities and colleges are "too expensive" to even be considered worth applying to; the truth cannot be farther from this misconception. If anything, the brightest and poorest students are best off at these schools, financially speaking, because these wealthy schools will cover tuition, room, and board for such students. [/quote]

New poster here, but you are wrong, sorry to say. As someone who has served on an admission committee for an Ivy for a few years, no one is truly need blind. Yes, a lot if universities have huge endowments, but they have to operate off the interest every year and can't touch the principal. In the case of a school like Harvard, 15-20% interest is still a hell of a lot if money. But any ANY (let me repeat that - any and every) honest college recruiter will admit that students who can pay full freight are desirable and they can't take a whole class full of financial aid students. This whole story about need blind is funny, since one of the first questions they ask you on the Common App is whether you will need financial aid. [/quote]

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