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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a close family who is head of financial
Aid at a top, need blind school.

Need blind at their school is indeed need blind. 100%. There is no interaction between the admissions and financial aid offices prior to decisions. That said, developmental (big donor) cases are different and the admissions committee can infer wealth (or lack there of) when looking at the rest of the application (parent jobs, home address, sending high school, extracurriculars etc)

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Everyone is talking past each other. Of course they will evaluate your application and decide to admit you without regard to “need”.

However, in regular decision, your application may be set aside in class shaping for financial reasons (similar to how it might be rejected or set aside because there are too many computer science majors or biology majors or psychology majors). It has nothing to do with the evaluation of your application. They just need a certain percentage of full pay students at that point.

In my view, that’s why if you know you will qualify for the need based aid and you have a top choice school, you’re better off applying early. Just run the NPC.[/quote]

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