<p>same as title</p>
<p>They do (or see a summary of it) at any institution that is not need-blind, and that's about 98% of the colleges in the US. I believe that there's a Wikipedia article "need-blind admission" that has a fairly up-to-date list of colleges that are need blind.</p>
<p>so need blind institution committees will not view the financial aid info? Most of my colleges are need blind.</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Some colleges have one office taking care of both functions. As a rule, even need aware colleges evaluate the application without consideration of the need. Once you make the admit or consider to admit stack, that is when the real analysis occurs as to whether your need makes you a viable candidate. This also tends to occur as the class is getting full and the money is running out. THe most desireable candidates are usually coded as such, and they will get what they need in terms of aid, and get any merit in aid that may exist. Those who are at the tail end of the process who need a lot of money, and are not tagged as a great candidate will either get a loan laden package, or be released as a rejection, if there are kids in that pool that are a better financial deal. A lot of kids feel that they should not put in for aid if they are on the borderline of getting any money at all, and that is a mistake as those kids who have only small amounts of need, are not affected by the need awared enrollment management who are trying to stretch the dollars as much as possible. Better to give 8 kids $5K apiece in grants, than one who needs the $40K. You can stretch out the aid much more. Most schools do get about half their kids needing aid, so the amount starts mattering in the process.</p>