So how many schools are truly need-blind?
Funnhehh.
No one here has any more information than you can find on the websites for the colleges.
Why don’t you lost the colleges you want to know about…and someone can tell you.
What do you mean, “truly need blind”?
Need blind is need blind, period. Find it out on your own
Lots.
Any school can profess to be need blind for admission if they don’t attempt to meet 100% of need.
If you have need, wouldn’t you be as equally concerned ( if not more so), how you are going to pay for it, as whether you will be accepted?
Why would anyone care about the number of schools that are need-blind - unless, do you mean - how many schools guarantee to meet full need (for internationals)?
Most places are need blind for admissions. That just means that they don’t look at financial need when they make the admission decision. Whether they have any aid money to give out is a whole other story.
Don’t confuse “need blind ADMISSIONS” with “gives full amount of what you think you need”
Really, you couldn’t have looked this up on your own?
And that doesn’t include all the need blind schools which don’t meet need, like almost all public Us.
Need blind for admissions does not mean they meet 100% of your demonstrated need. These are different concepts.
Google to find the list But whether a school is “TRULY” needblind in admissions, one can never know for certain. FIrst of all, many of the top schools do take economic disadvantage into account when it is severe, so that excludes them if you want to get technical. Also most schools are not TRULY need blind in that they have categories where they may look at need, such as for transfers, internationals. Also some school lie as GWU showed all of us. And you never know if there is some admissions person with some agenda or vendetta in processing the apps. So how can anyone know for absolutely certain, or TRULY, as you say.
But for the most part, most schools are need blind in admissions, simply because it’s so much work to be otherwise. They just accept the students and let fin aid come up with what money that can for the students because of the huge volume of apps that need to be processed and they have enough to do in meeting the standards that are given to them without getting into fin need which is none of their business.
Ridiculous how many people question the OP’s “motive” in asking this question. It is in fact, a very simple question, with a very simple answer.
Don’t see people questioning “motive”, but really, this is so easily found on the web, why ask?
@cptofthehouse byGWU, you mean George Washington U?
Yes. They got caught lying about being need blind in admissions.
Wow how did THAT happen and when?
You can google the subject and read about in many sources. That was about a year and a half ago. So, yes, these schools do LIE about things. A number of them have been caught fudging numbers–GWU got caught doing that too. Not enough consequences, IMO. THey fired a bunch of the people in Admissions and whereever they could nail someone knew and was lying, and they got bad PR for all of this, but that was about it.
A lot of scandals and lies in the admissions offices, along with some skankyacting people and practices. MIT Admission Head got busted for outright lying on her resume, for example. Some other adcom came out with some unethical practice, can’t remember exactly which school. Another school admits to looking at order of schools listed on fin aid forms to check out demonstrated interest. Oh, yes. It’s not as though the admissions folks are such holier than thou as they like to preach.
Thanks for the link.I looked it up amd that was same as what you wrote.
Yes I always wa skeprical abput how admission officers are better in assessing people than we are. I never trusted when ISFAA( for UChicago) said the order of schools in ISFAA doesnt matter.