Harvard's Financial Aid?

Applying to College
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<p>I have a quyick question for everyone</p>

<p>I just submitted my application to Havard and the Common App asked if I intend to apply for financial aid. I checked yes,</p>

<p>Does it increase my chances to get accepted if I indicated I didn't intend to apply for financial aid? Because Havard recently announce its extended financial program for middle and upper class families, so, is that the same as financial aid? </p>

<p>If indeed Harvard's new aid is not the same as financial aid and I wanted to indicate no for applying for aid, can I contact them to change that info?</p>

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<p>bump …</p>

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<p>Financial aid requests have no bearing on your chances of getting accepted;… or so they say.</p>

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<p>I cannot imagine it matters for Harvard. Their endowment of $35 billion is larger than the GDP of some small countries.</p>

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<p>35 BILLION??! dang…</p>

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<p>regardless</p>

<p>they call themselves needblind, but I dont know how true that is</p>

<p>if someone could answer my two questions</p>

<p>1) Is Harvards new financial aid program a standard, so do you have to check the box for ‘will apply for aid’ to recieve the new program they have?
2) If not, and I want to tell them I don’t want to apply for aid, to increase my chances, can I contact to chage it, and will it affet my other schools?</p>

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<p>Harvard is need blind your you needing (or not needing aid) will not be a factor in the admissions decision. In addition with their new FA initiative, families making less than $180,000 pay ~10%</p>

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