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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have written this several times on here but a family member of mine is the Director of Financial Aid at a top10 school and says that "need blind" at their school is indeed 100% need blind. Their office is handed a list of accepted students and they match aid packages to the students.

Development cases (giving above the cost of attendance) is a different situation as is the admissions committee preferentially admitting from private schools or expensive zip codes.  [/quote]

I don't doubt what you said. But there are many ways to do it before this step. A kid who spent most time taking care of 5 sibling and working 2 part time jobs vs one practicing equestrianism, who will need financial aid? I don't think they need to specially mark out who need who don't need. But most school will balance the backgrounds of selected students. That's how they can guarantee enough full pay. [/quote]

I’ll bet being full-pay matters a lot more for students from households with income over about $150,000 than under.

Everyone in the admissions office will respect the kid who gets great stats while taking care of five siblings and holding a part-time jobs. That will be at least a little bit of a hook at any T30 school.

But the admissions and aid people might not have much pity for ordinary good students, who had ordinary nice lives in moderately high-income homes, but who just have parents who weren’t great savers. The admissions people may figure those students will get good aid at JMU or UMBC and pick a full-pay student with similar stats. [/quote]

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