<p>Anyone here is going to pay the full price; no financial aid?</p>
<p>Plenty of students aren’t on any fin aid. What’s the news in that?</p>
<p>We are (should we be given the privilege:)), almost half do.</p>
<p>yeah i don’t apply for finnancial aid 
i had to sacrifice a private school experience.</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t you apply for financial aid? Dartmouth is need blind.</p>
<p>From what I hear need-blind isnt really “need blind”…</p>
<p>… and your evidence is what? Plunging FA recipients for incoming classes? Where?</p>
<p>Need blind is a huge point of pride for the entire Dartmouth community, alumni and donors especially. If they decided to hedge on this long-standing policy, heads would roll.</p>
<p>I can’t think of anything more detrimental to admissions than to play games with need blindness. D applied for FA and that didn’t prevent her from receiving a likely letter.</p>
<p>Did she receive a likely letter this year? Or is she from a past year’s admissions class?</p>
<p>Ivy agreement says that they can start sending Likely Letters starting on Oct 1.</p>
<p>I’m a current '14, and there are plenty of students on financial aid. On the other hand, there are also quite a few that aren’t on financial aid. The vast majority of students, however, are on aid in one form or another. Personally, I have a work study.</p>
<p>what about the need-blind policy for international students? Is it also really need-blind?</p>
<p>This is an unsavory thread sort of strutting about not applying for FA. I wanted to apply believe me but thanks to some situations beyond my control i now have the luxury of paying full price wherever my D attends first year 99.8% likely all for a stupid legal error in the way an account was set up. Sucks cause we are not wealthy by any stretch-alas still be glad to get her in to school of her dreams. Can not deny a kid a school that is a lottery ticket for most when they did all the work to get in, and it should easily pay back the cost over time anyway. A great education is a priceless commodity. Sort of like when Bush said
"it’s terrible to waster your mind–jury still out on if his Yale tuition got the return to make it worth it (for him yeah but society is the question-lol). Okay I know Dartmouth has rep for conservatism but surely a Bush Yale joke would be in order at the Dartmouth board–after all Dartmouth did not graduate him, that would have been a nucular meltdown in adcoms standards.</p>
<p>What is the maximum income tolerable for financial aid?</p>
<p>nucular???</p>
<p>8 years of speeches and press conferences and you never heard our former Yale educated President utter the mispronunciation of nuclear as NUCULAR? Thought it was common knowledge…it was a joke anyway…</p>
<p>Harvard Legacy- for the not as rich ivy league schools like say Dartmouth Columbia Penn probably 130k and typical assets but typical assets is totally unclear and if you have no savings and small home equity you could still get decent FA FROM MANY SCHOOLS, unfortunately each school has slightly different always changing rules for CSS and so you really need to run calculators. You know Harvard states that even incomes up to 180k can expect to pay about 10 percent of their income or 18k towards costs there if they have “typical assets” again typical is not clear but I am guessing no more than 200k home equity and 150k savings or so…(401ks I think are exempt from assessment).</p>
<p>waitlistman- Thanks!</p>
<p>I work at Dartmouth admissions and although I’m not privy to the specifics of how officers make decisions, I’ve never seen any indication that finances play a role in admissions decisions; I’m an international who applied before Dartmouth was need-blind, and I’m happy with my aid package. I know it’s a common rumor that a lot of schools which say they’re need-blind really aren’t so for internationals, but I’ve not seen any evidence to that effect. When the President announced budget cuts he was quite explicit about preserving our need-blind status, especially for internationals. I’m 100% certain that we really are need-blind for Americans.</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure how we could be need-aware anyway; I think standard practice is to just not include even whether the applicant is applying for aid on the material that officers review. The admissions and financial aid offices are also very separate (I’ve never interacted with financial aid staff in my duties at the admissions office).</p>
<p>FWIW, about half of Dartmouth students receive some form of aid, and about half do not. So either way you’re in pretty good company – but obviously a bit more than a majority of Dartmouth students are quite well off.</p>
<p>John…how about shaking those adcoms up a little bit for us… Cornell already got their notification date emails, UPenn notification date is up on their website… Dartmouth should be number one of course!!! :)</p>