Does Princeton process financial aid forms for all students, or only accepted students?

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Hi all! This may sound like a dumb question, and I’m not sure that anyone has the answer, but I figured I would ask. I am aware that Princeton is need blind, and therefore financial aid has no bearing on admissions, as FA and admissions are in two separate departments. However, would it make sense for FA to start calculating financial aid students for all applicants when the vast majority will be rejected a month and a half later? Is it possible that while FA doesn’t influence admissions, admissions forwards students they are remotely interested in to FA so that the last couple weeks before the decisions come out could be spent calculating far fewer packages? I read somewhere that at this stage in the game, colleges already have decisions, and if that’s the case, it would make sense for the decisions delay to be due to FA package calculations, so that accepted students can see their FA offers at the same time as their admissions offer.

What does everyone think?

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While some recipients of the email end up getting accepted, the FA email has no bearing on acceptance status. It’s a more of a reminder. Good luck! =)
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19014773/#Comment_19014773

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Thanks! That’s what I thought, but I was just a bit hopeful that it wouldn’t be the case :wink:

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for 4,000+ students, with data filled, it only takes less than 10 minutes to get all students running through the financial process calculator to get all students’ results. So, it is for all students. Plus, Princeton claims they are separated blinded processes. I trust them.

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^^ I think running packaging for a population selection of 4000+ takes longer than 10 minutes and generally thorough offices will probably want to review but yeah it’s relatively easy enough to do.

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LOL, I mean using a program code to run through all data and generate the preliminary results. Of course, office need time to to review the files, it takes longer time.