<p>Frens, I was curious to know if MIT is need blind for international students. I had applied for aid, and the package hasn't reached to me yet. In the meantime, I hear somewhere that it's need blind. Would anyone tell the truth?</p>
<p>Yes, it’s need blind for both residents and internationals.</p>
<p>It is need blind for all admitted students, regardless of location, but you might be conflating terms here. “Need blind” is an admissions term meaning that the admissions office does not consider (and indeed doesn’t know) an applicant’s ability to pay when making an admissions decision. MIT is also a “full need” school which means that MIT guarantees to meet the full financial need of all of its students for a full course of study. There are only 6 American universities that are need-blind and full-need for internationals. MIT is one of these (along with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth and Amherst).</p>
<p>As to your not receiving the package yet, if you check the deadlines page on the MIT website you will see that while admissions day moves around a bit (but has been 3/14 1:59 for the last few years), the financial aid announcement deadline almost never moves and it is April Fool’s Day each year. So there is a week and a half to go potentially.</p>
<p>Thank you both.</p>
<p>MIT is both need-blind and generous. I have just received my financial aid package yesterday. Their financial aid is more than i expected,and it is completely same with their fin-aid calculator.</p>