<p>according to offial website it doesn't.But some people I talked sayed I lowers your chance to 1/4.Does it?</p>
<p>Nope, MIT is 100% need-blind. That means that the admissions officers reading your file and deciding weather or not to admit you don’t even know if you applied for financial aid. It won’t affect your chances at all. This is true for both international and domestic applicants.</p>
<p>I’m desperately hoping so!</p>
<p>I can safely tell you that your financial need doesn’t affect your admission chance.
I live in the southern hemisphere so my tax returns weren’t ready until March (the beginning of the work/school year here), just a bit before admission results were out. MIT never got my financial documents before sending the decisions and I was still accepted and got adequate financial aid when they finally got my documents.</p>
<p>Through the entire application process, you will save yourself a lot of headaches if you treat everything on the MIT Admissions website as true, and trust it as a source over rumors.</p>
<p>believe me i want to, I really want to believe…</p>
<p>From personal experience, FA does not affect your chances at need blind schools. I filed FA for all of my needblind schools, and I was admitted to some and denied at some, so it dosen’t really matter. Focus on your application and you should be fine.</p>
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<p>[</a>" The admissions process at MIT is need-blind, so a Financial Aid application (or lack thereof) will not affect your chances of being admitted to MIT."](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/index.shtml#finaid]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/index.shtml#finaid)</p>
<p>It’s not like they would want to deliberately lie to you.</p>
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<p>Then believe it. =p</p>
<p>Yes MIT Admissions is need-blind. MIT Financial Aid is merit-blind.</p>
<p>merit-blind? You sounds rich and sore that you didn’t get a scholarship.</p>
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<p>Er, the idea being that if MIT Finaid were merit based, no one would have to pay tuition :)</p>
<p>Yeah, MIT financial aid is completely merit-blind. That means that the financial aid department doesn’t see your application, they only see your financial aid documents. This lets them award financial aid solely based on how much you need the money, and nobody is given preferential treatment.</p>
<p>[You sounds rich and sore that you didn’t get a scholarship.]</p>
<p>Actually I did specifically because my family was far from rich. The admissions office does not see or care whether you can pay and indeed, there is no negative consequence of going through the admissions fee waiver program if you cannot afford the admissions fee.</p>
<p>The Financial Aid office does not see or care how good you are, or how much the coaches or faculty want you at MIT. The only thing that they see or give any concern to is your financial state.</p>
<p>well, if they are concerned about your financial state, wouldnt they know that you need the money and that your family is “far from rich”, as you say?</p>
<p>I am not sarcastic. i just really want to know because I really really really need the aid if, hopefully, I get in…</p>