<p>Wouldn't it be great if the common data set broke down applicants and admits by financial indicators as well. I'm at a loss to understand the notion of "need-blind" when admissions knows where an applicant lives, where they went to high school, what their parents do for a living and where they were educated. They're under pressure to get more Pell grant students while maintaining enough full pay customers that the endowment can continue growing robustly. That the middle class gets squeezed out in that process comes as no surprise. Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but it's amazing how the percentage of students needing financial aid stays so steady each year at a given school.</p>