Dartmouth's New Initiative - Need blind for Internationals....

Paying for College
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<p>Other major changes, which will go into effect for the coming academic year, include:</p>

<li>Free tuition for students who come from families with annual incomes below $75,000</li>
<li>Replacing loans with scholarships</li>
<li>Junior leave term with no earnings expectation </li>
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<p><a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/01/22.html[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/01/22.html</a></p>

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<p>Good for Dartmouth. Another domino falls.</p>

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<p>Bloomberg.com:</a> U.S.</p>

<p>Aggressive Financial Aid Policy eliminates loans for those making under $75K</p>

<p>Also, International admissions will now be need blind. Dartmouth is the closest Ivy to HYP in terms of endowment per student. It will be interesting to see if the other Ivies will follow. This will also likely increase Dartmouth's yield, making it more competitive than ever (12-13% acceptance rate).</p>

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<p>Best. News. Ever.</p>

<p>As an international who would have a very hard time choosing between any of the "Top-tier Ivies" and Dartmouth, I'm very pleased.</p>

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<p>Great news!</p>

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<p>ARE YOU SERIOUS~!!! is this effective as of this year!!!! :( man I should have applied :(</p>

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<p>ugh... come on UChicago. It's only a matter of time.</p>

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<p>This is good news. I've never considered Dartmouth before. The financial aid offering has just put this school into a new prospective for me.</p>

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<p>woah. that's awesome news. it will do more for dartmouth's profile among internationals than any other form of advertising.</p>

<p>fortunately, i'm in already :P
i can't imagine how competitive admissions next year will be, especially considering that international ED pool increased by a third this year.</p>

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<p>does it mean 75k before or after tax?</p>

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<p>Wow awesome !</p>

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<p>Ugh.. great news, but I wish they would've announced this earlier.</p>

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<p>DAMMNIT!!!! I wish they would have said this earlier. I would have so applied if I would known this. I would have loved to go there for free.</p>

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<p>ya sprtn117, EXACTLY how I feel</p>

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<p>talk<em>about</em>ambition wrote: "does it mean 75k before or after tax?"</p>

<p>I'm sure it means before taxes--because that is what goes on your FAFSA.</p>

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<p>Only fully apply to the 2008-2009 freshmen though. Half apply to those who already there. More and more like 'price' war just attract the newly addmits to attend.</p>

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<p>What a generous college! However, it's more like a liberal arts college and does not provide a competitive program of engineering, so I did not apply to it.</p>

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<p>Is this applicable from this year? i.e. for all the internationals who applied for Fall 2008? I applied for Fall 2008 and was just wondering...</p>

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<p>Actually most Ivy engineers tend to go into finance or engineering grad school and Dartmouth does better than anyone outside the top 5-6 at placing engineers into both.</p>

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<p>Seems like a pretty negative way to interpret something incredibly positive.</p>