Reply to Better odds for full pay applicants

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Better odds for full pay applicants "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]^^^^
So much more!!

“I mean, there are need-blind institutions that say they're need-blind, but in reality, there has to be some level of awareness because there are elements inside an application. Without looking at financial aid characteristics, and by that I mean FAFSA CSS profile, you can remove that. There are elements inside an application for admission, which are really strong leading indicators of wealth.

Sure.

It is really hard to completely eliminate that bias in the process of reading and committee and shaping a class, period, exclamation point.

What are those? Why don't you just say what some of those are, those clear indicators? I think we know it will be helpful to be able to read.

Parents' level of education, the institutions at which they attended, professions.

Yeah.

You know, I mean-

Zip code.

School.

You can look at address. You can look at street address. And all you need to do is pull up some real estate calculator and you can just Google someone's address and see the estimated value of a particular home.”

—-

“And I know that. But, are you also, do you expect to also see it on the other side, which is, well, that's a kid I wouldn't have seen get in that school in the past. I can tell they're either expanding their class or they're afraid their yield is going to be lower and they're covering themselves.

I would think they're also seeing that as well.

It's 100%. Yep. Like, a student with that profile, a marginal profile got into a really, really selective place.

We're seeing it because of X, Y, or Z, could be this factor, this factor, but more and more we're starting to see it in terms of socioeconomics.

Yeah. I have long been of the belief that a lot of the schools that say they're need-blind truly really aren't need-blind. I commended, you probably remember when Haverford and Wesleyan came out and said we're not need-blind, and it was really controversial.”

From Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews: Changes In How Admissions Decisions Are Being Made Due to Financial Pressures, Apr 2, 2025[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics