Are some colleges more willing to accept students in need of financial aid than othes

Paying for College
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<p>My question is this: Are there colleges who gernerally provide less finanial aid as a whole and can that affect the chances of a person in need of financial assistance for being accepted? Can it influence the admissions decision? </p>

<p>I read in a popular guide that for Brown and Johns Hopkins the percent receiving financial aid out of those who apply first year is about 4o% while in other Ivies and top colleges it is 70-80%.</p>

<p>Does this mean that some colleges are more willing to accept more students in need of financial aid?</p>

<p>Thanks to anyone who has any idea on the subject :)</p>

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<p>Some colleges have larger endowments and therefore are able to provide need based financial aid to more students, in more significant amounts.</p>

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<p>Amount of need, especially high need influences admission decisions at a small number of private colleges. Some, like Reed, Dickinson, Skidmore acknowledge that factor, others do not. A small number of colleges,Yale, Harvard, Swarthmore, Amherst etc are need blind and need is not factored into the admissions decision. Most other privates will accept a student without considering need, but will “gap” in their fin aid packages, thus preventing matriculation. High need is not an admissions factor at almost all publics.</p>

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<p>Need blind colleges: [Need-blind</a> admission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission]Need-blind”>Need-blind admission - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>Most colleges are need-blind. This is functionally meaningless if you actually do need financial aid, since most of them can’t and won’t meet your need anyway. I think some people on here call it “admit/deny”; a college will admit you to the college but give you so little financial aid that it’s impossible to actually attend.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins was not need blind in the past but I read that they did implement that policy, on a trial basis, this year.</p>

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<p>Does this mean that some colleges are more willing to accept more students in need of financial aid?</p>

<p>You’re asking the wrong question.</p>

<p>Most schools don’t care whether you have financial need. Most schools will accept you regardless…because they don’t meet need. They’ll accept you and then give you a lousy aid package.</p>

<p>You should be asking which schools are need blind and will meet 100% of need without big loans. Sadly, there aren’t many.</p>

<p>Are you an int’l student?</p>

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<p>All of you need to try the link College_ruled posted. Wikipedia lists it as Need Blind Admission but the link pulls up schools who are need blind AND meet full need for internationals and US residents.</p>