<p>Examples of schools whose admissions are NOT need-blind?</p>
<p>if u can pay full price, 95% of colleges in the US will give you a hard look - including good publics.</p>
<p>I always believed given two otherwise exact applicants and 1 spot, the one who doesn't need get in is the one who needs F.A.</p>
<p>Need blind schools: Amherst, BC, Cal Tech, Columbia, Cooper Union, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Franklin W. Olin, Georgetown, Harvard, Haverford, Lawrence, MIT, Middlebury, Pomona, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, U Chicago, U Penn, U Richmond, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale.</p>
<p>And I believe Brown and Tufts, and of course there are a few other schools, but basically any school not on this list is what you're looking for.</p>
<p>tonyt there are many many more schools which are need blind then that list.</p>
<p>thus the part where I said "and of course there are a few other schools"</p>
<p>yes, i know - i meant though there are many many more than "just a few other schools"</p>
<p>a few is about 3</p>
<p>well I learned that few is three or more, but take what you want from my education then.</p>
<p>FWIW, Syracuse says they're need-blind, too. </p>
<p>So if you're on the fence acceptance wise and there is fin. aid paperwork with your application, are schools able to say you can attend if you'll pay full price, or if they see the fin. aid paperwork are they obligated to just say no?</p>
<p>From Wake Forest's website:</p>
<p>"Need-blind" means that students are admitted without regard to the family's ability to pay for college. The twenty-eight need-blind schools meeting full need and using a consensus approach to defining need are:</p>
<p>Amherst College</p>
<p>Middlebury College
Boston College</p>
<p>Northwestern University
Brown University</p>
<p>Pomona College
Claremont McKenna College</p>
<p>Rice University
Columbia University</p>
<p>Swarthmore College
Cornell University</p>
<p>University of Chicago
Dartmouth College</p>
<p>University of Notre Dame
Davidson College</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania
Duke University</p>
<p>Vanderbilt University
Emory University</p>
<p>Wake Forest University
Georgetown University</p>
<p>Wellesley College
Grinnell College</p>
<p>Wesleyan University
Haverford College</p>
<p>Williams College
Mass. Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Yale University</p>
<p>Gee, this is a tough one, since schools are reluctant to advertise that they are NOT need-blind. The only case I know of is Brown, for transfer students. Of course, almost all schools are not need-blind for international students. I'm sure there are some schools for which financial aid is a factor in admissions, but I don't know any.</p>
<p>I was told that if you're male, aren't failing, and can pay, you're in at Vassar.</p>
<p>i think youwere told wrong ;-)</p>
<p>Non need blind schools often waitlist candidates and when asked, tell them they are in if they don't need money. Others just accept the kid with little or no aid.</p>
<p>even at need blind schools, do you think that chances may be increased if one does not apply for financial aid? i realize the definition of "need-blind", but I think there maybe would be some phsycological edge, wouldn't there?</p>
<p>Tufts is odd, because they are in a limbo/temporary situation at hte moment. They are planning to go need-blind within the next few years, and so they have instituted a temporary policy where they "act" as need-blind for low-income students.</p>
<p>I believe that list is even missing a few, such as Harvard and Princeton, unless they don't use a consensus approach in defining need, whatever that means. I would guess Stanford too, but I'm not entirely sure</p>
<p>i guess maybe i don't know what need-blind is. if need-blind is first year admissions only, then that list is much longer. if you include transfer students then maybe that list is correct.</p>
<p>most schools that are generally need-blind with freshman applicants are not necessarily so with transfer...so it's in a transfers best interest to jump ahead of a bunch of other applicants and get external loans, IMO.</p>
<p>pomona college is need blind?
really?</p>