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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes that is true. It's why you should always apply ED if the NPC works for your family.
RD is not your friend if you need aid because of "class shaping".[/quote]

100% this.....run the NPC. Don't hope and pray for late March.[/quote]

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