<p>I red that it promises to meet 100 of demonstrated need, but does it do this on a subset of apps where they know they can do this?</p>
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<p>Doesn’t that mean it wouldn’t be “need blind”?</p>
<p>Much has been written about BC’s financial aid in these forums. BC will meet your need - but they define what you need. </p>
<p>Many who reply here are thrilled with how much money BC has given them. Unfortunately many others also reply totally depressed because they won’t be able to attend BC with the amount of aid BC gave them.</p>
<p>Search through the past threads - there’s lots of valuable material there.</p>
<p>No, need blind is an admissions process where your needing or not needing aid will not be a factor in admitting a student. </p>
<p>A school meeting your demonstrated need is a financial aid process</p>
<p>Most schools are need blind for US citizens/permanent residents but they do not meet 100% demonstrated need. </p>
<p>Some schools are need aware/need sensitive but will meet the demonstrated need of the students they do select</p>
<p>in answer to your original question</p>
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<p>sybbie , thanks for teasing out the phrases correctly and clarifying. Also thanks for the link; --that is what was prompting my question.</p>
<p>I don’t believe so.</p>
<p>For US citizens & Permanent Residents BC is need blind in the admissions process and will meet 100% demonstrated financial need. However as previously stated, it is the school, not you/your parents that determine your demonstrated need.</p>
<p>There are different ways colleges can “meet need”. This can include a mix of grants, scholarships, AND LOANS. So what they can and often do, is if a student they really really want due to GPA and rest of the student application (athlete, extra curriculars, skills, test scores, etc.) they will slant or weight the aid/need package to be more grants and merit aid. If they are less excited about the student they may accept but weight the aid package to be more LOANS. That “counts” as meeting 100% of need, even if most of it is loans and needs to be paid back. This comment is not about BC specifically, but it just general how things work. </p>
<p>Small nit:</p>
<p>a) this is a year-old thread
b) with the exception of a dozen Presidential scholarships and ncaa-approved athletic scholarships, BC does not offer merit aid
c) And without merit aid to offer, BC does not practice enrollment management (as you have outlined above)</p>
<p>Other than that, your post is helpful! 
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<p>Everyone should use the financial aid calculator for an estimate.</p>
<p>They are need-blind and meet full need. For our income, the calculator had $3k a year of loans, though I don’t know if this applies to all income levels (some schools lower the loans for students of lesser means). The EFC was pretty much in line with others I ran, though a few $1000 higher than some of the better ones.</p>
<p>Maybe this is obvious, but if you set up your financial data on a College Board account, you can run the exact same data for any school’s net price calculator as long as they participate in the College Board Net Price Calculator. It lets you compare apples to apples. BC uses the college board NPC.</p>