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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most (I want to say all, but I haven’t checked every single one) are not need blind, and even if you are accepted and get FA there’s no guarantee it’s the full amount of FA you think you need. [/quote]

+1.  Also, need-blind admissions (where it possibly exists) is NOT a guarantee that the school will provide ANY FA, let alone provide whichever FA number the family believes it needs.  So it can and does happen that a student is offered a place by a school, but student either is offered no FA or “not enough” FA (from the family’s viewpoint).  As PP observed, FA is finite. [/quote]

Well this is the issue--the difference between what the school wants to give and what the family believes they need. There are schools (primarily boarding schools in the NE) that are truly need-blind and have endowments large enough to give lots of kids a free ride. That's great so they can truly pick the best and the brightest but are they going to give any FA to a family who makes $500k a year?  Nope. That would be a terrible business model. That said, some families can technically afford private school if they really stretch and those are the families who probably get screwed in these situations.[/quote]

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