<p>My thanks to zagat for bringing this to my attention. Apparently there was a move to go need-blind for international students for some schools as of 2001-2002. This was after my reference was published. From what I briefly saw... Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT now have need-blind financial aid for international students. In my opinion, UPenn and Stanford have made statements indicating that they think it is a bad idea. I think you need to check each school individually. Try doing a google with </p>
<p>+"need-blind" +"international students"</p>
<p>I suspect that some of the top schools with big endowments are moving in this direction, but other second-tier schools are not. This is only my own opinion.</p>