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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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+1 Whoever said this point of view is naive was spot on.  I toured Emory last year (2025) with DC, and after the info session, went up to the AO and asked whether during admissions review the AOs could see whether or not the applicant checked the box for seeking financial aid.  The answer was, yes, we can see that.  I asked the same question and got the same answer at a subsequent visit to another so-called need blind institution, Amherst College.  This is an important parameter because the software that AOs use to view applications shades out, in a way to obscure the information, the boxes on the application for race/ethnicity, so as to be complaint with the affirmative action ban under SFFA v. Harvard.  So, the point is, colleges could, if they really wanted to, obscure the box for FA so that AOs never see it, but they don't.  They leave that box visible to admissions reviewers.  AOs know they have a FA budget that can't be busted, they know they need a certain percentage of tuition-payers in order for the institution to make budget.  They also know their jobs/salaries might be dependent on the institution making budget. There's no way that the knowledge of whether the applicant checked the FA box doesn't enter into the equation, even if only subconsciously. Need blind does not exist.[/quote]

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