<p>^^Exactly. At least Colgate, Reed and Tufts and other need-aware schools publicly admit that the last few applications are pulled for a financial aid calculator… In the cases of Reed and Tufts, for example, their official policy was need-aware, but they had enough money to be need-blind for several years up to the downturn/crash. Since ~'08, however, they’ve had to go back to being need-aware in practice.</p>
<p>Brown being need-aware when they clearly state that they are not is…</p>