Many colleges state they do not look at financial materials, etc. when making decisions, but how true is this, especially for an OOS school? Everyone says OOS wants your money, which I’m sure is true, but how much truth to it?
You need to look at whether the college says they are need blind in admissions. Not all colleges are. And even if they admit you, few “meet need”. They will let you in, but give you too little or no aid. Most public colleges give no aid need based aid to OOS students.
Most places don’t look at your ability to pay in admissions. If you are admitted, and you don’t get enough aid to be able to attend, well then you don’t attend.
also
Name of School Need-Blind(Domestic) Need-Blind(International) Need-Blind(Transfer) Need-Blind
(Wait List)
Adrian College Yes Yes Yes<br>
Amherst College Yes Yes Yes Yes
Babson College Yes Yes Yes Yes
Barnard College Yes No No<br>
Baylor University Yes Yes Yes Yes
Biola University Yes No No<br>
Boston College Yes No Yes ?
Boston University Yes No No<br>
Bowdoin College Yes No No<br>
Brandeis University Yes No Yes<br>
Brown University Yes No No ?
California Institute of Technology Yes No Yes<br>
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Yes No Yes<br>
Carnegie Mellon University Yes No Yes<br>
Chapman University Yes Yes Yes<br>
Claremont McKenna College Yes No Yes<br>
Columbia University Yes No Yes<br>
Cooper Union Yes No No<br>
Cornell College Yes No Yes<br>
Cornell University Yes Yes Yes<br>
Dartmouth College Yes No Yes<br>
Davidson College Yes No Yes<br>
Denison University Yes No Yes<br>
DePaul University Yes No Yes<br>
Duke University Yes No Yes<br>
Elon University Yes No No<br>
Emory University Yes No Yes<br>
Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Yes Yes Yes<br>
Florida State University Yes No Yes<br>
Fordham University Yes No No<br>
Georgetown University Yes Yes Yes<br>
Grinnell College Yes No Yes<br>
Hamilton College Yes No Yes<br>
Harvard Business School Yes Yes Yes<br>
Harvard College Yes Yes Yes<br>
Harvey Mudd College Yes No Yes<br>
Haverford College Yes No Yes<br>
Hiram College Yes No Yes<br>
Holy Cross Yes Yes Yes<br>
Jewish Theological Seminary Yes ? Yes<br>
Johns Hopkins University Yes No<br>
Julliard Yes ? ?<br>
Lawrence University Yes No Yes<br>
Lehigh University Yes No<br>
Lewis & Clark College Yes No Yes<br>
Marist College Yes No No<br>
Marlboro College Yes No Yes<br>
Middlebury College Yes No Yes<br>
Mills College Yes No No<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Yes Yes Yes<br>
Mount St. Mary’s College Yes No No<br>
North Carolina State University (NCSU) Yes No Yes<br>
New York University (NYU) Yes No Yes<br>
North Central College Yes No Yes<br>
Northeastern University Yes No<br>
Northwestern University Yes No Yes<br>
Olin College of Engineering Yes No Yes<br>
Penn State Yes No Yes
Pomona College Yes Yes Yes<br>
Princeton University Yes Yes Yes<br>
Providence College Yes No Yes<br>
Randolph College Yes ? ?<br>
Rice University Yes No Yes<br>
Salem College Yes No Yes<br>
San Jose State University (SJSU) Yes No Yes<br>
Semester at Sea Yes Yes NA<br>
Soka University of America Yes ? Yes<br>
St. John’s College Yes Yes Yes<br>
St. Olaf College Yes No ?<br>
Stanford University Yes No Yes<br>
State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry Yes No Yes<br>
Swarthmore College Yes No Yes<br>
Syracuse University Yes No Yes<br>
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Yes No Yes<br>
Thomas Aquinas College Yes Yes Yes<br>
Trinity University Yes No Yes<br>
Tufts University Yes No<br>
Tulane University Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of Chicago Yes No Yes
University of Illinois at Chicago Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business Yes ? Yes<br>
University of Miami Yes Yes Yes
University of New Hampshire Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of North Carolina Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of Notre Dame Yes No Yes<br>
University of Pennsylvania Yes No Yes<br>
University of Richmond Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of Rochester Yes No<br>
University of Southern California (USC) Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of Vermont Yes Yes Yes<br>
University of Virginia Yes No Yes<br>
University of Washington Yes Yes Yes<br>
Ursuline College Yes Yes ?<br>
Vanderbilt University Yes No Yes<br>
Vassar College Yes No Yes<br>
Wabash College Yes No Yes<br>
Wake Forest School of Medicine Yes No NA<br>
Washington University Yes No Yes<br>
Wellesley College Yes No Yes Yes
Wesleyan University Yes No Yes<br>
Williams College Yes No Yes<br>
Yale University Yes Yes Yes<br>
Yeshiva University Yes Yes
Just because a school doesn’t look at need for admissions decisions does not guarantee that the school will give the student sufficient aid to attend if accepted. There are notable exceptions (ex. UAlalbama) but many public colleges don’t give a lot of aid to OOS students.
I haven’t double-checked all of it, but this seems to be an updated list, and it includes need-aware colleges that meet need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission