“Can y’all stop debating which schools belong in the HYP&c… acronym soup? Or at least take it to its own thread?”
Agree, especially since the acronym is only used on CC, I mean if you said HYP to someone affiliated with colleges or high schools, they would get it, but no one outside of that, you’d have to explain it.
“This school actually showed us what the common app looks like when viewed by admissions… and that answer was not able to be viewed.”
That may be true but there’s other information on the app that will tell an adcom about the financial need of an applicant. If an applicant is from a private high school that costs 25K a year (regional counselors know this) and comes from a wealthy suburb of New York or San Francisco, they have a pretty good idea on the family income.
I would take need blind and holistic with a grain of salt, they’re words used to make the admission and FA process more opaque than it needs to be.