<p>I know about 15 people, personally, who got into ivies. They were all rich. For the last 5 years at my school, anyone at my school that needs a lot of financial aid never gets it. We send about 5 to ivies each year(do thats 25 kids got in). Rich kids with the seemingly identical stats(except for essays/recs) as the less rich ones always get in while the others get rejected. For clarification, when i say rich i mean they do not apply for financial aid or only get very little. Is this just a coincidence? ;D</p>
<p>Define rich.</p>
<p>No! Where I live about ten out of 350 kids get in ivies WITH financial aid. By the way, I go to a very low rank school. One may even say “ghetto.”</p>
<p>I got into an Ivy with over 50% fin aid. More than that, actually, but it’s kind of embarassing to say exactly how much haha.</p>
<p>something like 50% of students at ivies receive some financial aid … so yes, it is just a coincidence (or maybe you go to a school where most students wouldn’t require financial aid)</p>
<p>I know a family who has so far sent two of their kids to Ivy league colleges (one Harvard, one Brown) who are not rich. Mom is stay at home, Dad works at a job that probably earns $80-90K. They have four kids total, so that is not what I would consider rich. The one at Brown is taking out a lot of loans.</p>
<p>Kid from the next town over off to H in the fall. Very typical mediocre HS in a depressed rust belt blue collar town. Dad drives a truck, Mom is a postal clerk. Don’t know the FA details, but it has to be substantial.</p>
<p>In my daughter’s class at a private boarding school, the 2 who went to Harvard were athletes, one got full need based aid, the other got good aid. My daughter got virtually full aid at Brown. One who went to Yale is middle class. The kids who went to Stanford were well off. Another who was accepted to Brown and had the money to pay in full, decided to go to a school where tuition is waived.</p>
<p>Several ivy league schools are need-blind, meaning they don’t look at your finances when reviewing your application. Even those who aren’t still shell out a significant amount of aid. They have the funding to do it.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_financial_aid.asp[/url]”>http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_financial_aid.asp</a></p>
<p>At every school, 50%+ receive aid and the average package is 30,000+.</p>
<p>As others have said, most ivies are need blind. </p>
<p>I’m attending an ivy on full aid and got in over someone from my school who had higher objective stats than I did across the board. (With exception of GPA and Rank which were identical) He would have been on almost no financial aid. </p>
<p>To be honest, the theory that those requiring less aid are still given an edge in need-blind admissions is just not founded in reality. The evidence that you have that points to this is anecdotal. Beyond that, you did not see these recs and essays of the rejected and accepted applicants you know, and you probably did not know the full extent of these students’ ECs. So yes, this is just a coincidence.</p>