<p>how can Yale truly be need-blind when making admissions decisions? On the common app, you indicate whether you intend to apply for financial aid, and the CSS profile is due along with the regular application &supplement. If Yale was really need-blind, then why would they ask for the CSS profile before making decisions?</p>
<p>and this year, the economy REALLY sucks, alot of the big schools are losing BIG chunks of endowment, so doesn't it seem likely that admissions decisions for the class of 2014 will shift significantly?</p>
<p>Umm… because if they accept someone, a full financial aid package is included simultaneously.</p>
<p>Yale and a couple of others are in the situation where they have committed to NOT shrinking back on FA, already among the top one or two most generous before the recession. </p>
<p>This has contributed to the enormous gain in apps. Yale expects close to 30000 in part due to the attractiveness of their generous FA policies, especially in light of the economy and other colleges’ needs to cut back.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, about 70% of incoming freshmen receive some sort of award.</p>
<p>Their FA policy is one of the real point of pride for the University and we alumni. They *are *need blind.</p>
<p>I hope that’s right
because in the back of my mind, I still have this notion that if another applicant similar to me does not request financial aid, then I have no chance of getting in</p>
<p>Yale takes great pride in the integrity of its “need blind” admissions policy. Even with the economic downturn, undergraduate financial aid is still the top priority of the university. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about it… this is one of those things where worrying about it doesn’t help you at all. If I didn’t request aid, I couldn’t have attended even if I was admitted. And plus, my 500 character Why Yale question was completely about how I loved their financial aid policy. So much for subtlety now that I think of it. </p>
<p>i can’t help but feel that we people are applying to yale at the worst time.</p>
<p>we miss out on yale’s planned 2013 expansion of its college, but we still feel the effects of the jump in admissions caused by the its aid policy during a recession, as well as harvard and princeton abandoning ed/ea</p>
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