How much need based aid requirements hurts in college admission for a top ORM student?

Look into what holistic admissions means.
And what her college targets will look for and want in applicants.

She’s not applying to another prep. What the preps required, said, or did is behind you now.

You have got to become informed about what the college targets look for, not hs, and not what mattered when the siblings applied.

And rather than anyone spinning their wheels over need blind, what you guess it means, just accept it. All this fuss about it distracts from what it really takes to put out a good app and supps for a top college. You don’t just send in a resume and wait for the Yes.

As it is, in their hs choices and then their applications, too many kids miss what really matters. They diminish their own chances.