<p>It depends on whether a school is need blind or need aware. However, with a few exceptions (HYP come to mind), even need blind schools will offer different amounts of aid depending on how much they want a candidate. So I don’t know if coaches pay that much attention to it, but some admissions offices will. </p>
<p>While it might be true that coaches don’t ask about FA, if a student is going to be applying early admission and needs FA, the coach is going to need to know that so that the student can request a financial aid pre-read. I don’t see how that could be done separately from the coach.</p>