<p>Im just wondering, does financial aid applying for financial aid affect your admissions? If it does, lets say for a Private School like USC, will that increase your chances? Or a public school, which is alot cheaper. I tried calling a couple of the schools, but no luck. Does anyone have any information on this?</p>
<p>The vast majority of colleges are not need blind to transfer students, so being a full pay student may help “tip the scales.” As with freshmen admissions, financial aid packages from schools may not be adequate for admitted students to actually attend.</p>
<p>oh thanks! that helps me alot!</p>
<p>It will help a ton if you can pay at most schools.</p>
<p>check to make sure if the college has need-blind admissions or not. need-blind means that it won’t affect your decision and that they’ll look at how much you need after they accept you. i believe there’s a list somewhere up on cc that lists which colleges are need-blind. also, something trickier that you want to be careful of is that while some colleges are need-blind for freshman admission they are not need-blind for transfer admission. unfortunately, this narrows down the list even more.</p>
<p>Need blind can be ambiguous…being a full pay is advantageous, especially in the current economy…</p>
<p>yeah that is true. i guess it depends on the school’s financial program then. some will be need-blind and meet 100% of your need, others will be need-blind but won’t.</p>
<p>it’s not supposed to, but in some cases for private schools if Student A and Student B had the same stats, but Student A is financially more stable, Student A will prolly get in.</p>
<p>What do you mean it’s not supposed to? Private colleges can spend their money anyway they like.</p>
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<p>Need blind is not ambiguous, it’s just that people intertwine need blind (which concerns admissions decisions) and 100% need (which pertains to FA). The two are separate, independent concepts.</p>
<p>actually need blind is “flexible” concept, because remember, your application lists your parents’ occupations. colleges can figure out a standard salary from that. they also know where you live, parents’ levels of education, whether or not you have siblings in college, etc., right there on your app. they don’t need to check if you applied for financial aid to get an idea.</p>
<p>^I wasn’t trying to imply that colleges can’t find out demographic information about you on your application if they want to, they most certainly can. I was making a distinction between the concepts of need blind and 100% need which are often used interchangeably.</p>
<p>It is possible though to be able to afford it maybe through savings or something. I know a lot of people who’s parents’ occupations are actually quite low in terms of salary but they are able to afford it. It’s just not evident. Especially in the circumstance where both parents completed the highest level of education possible but when they immigrated, credits weren’t able to transfer, and they were never really able to reclaim the occupation they once had. I guess that admissions officers can get a rough idea though considering that these instances aren’t always common anyway.</p>