They don’t give good FA for RD applicants either. Aid was a joke. If we are paying that much for school, it’s going to MIT.
Congrats on the adMIT.
@bordertexan Thanks! I hear that WashU’s FA office is not opposed to haggling if that is something you want to pursue.
@Madeon - we’ll save the haggling for MIT. S adMITted 12-13-14@15:16. (I think it was clever)
One thing many dont realize is that while schools can not see where else you have applied via the common ap, they can see what schools you have listed on the FAFSA. So for those qualified students who might also be likelies for other top schools where they sent their FAFSA info to, perhaps admissions decisions are influenced by this? It is best to list those schools in alphabetical order, vs any other way, lest that be assumed your order of preference. I.e. if a top tier candidate lists H,P,Y then WashU on his/her FAFSA, perhaps WashU assumes they would go to one of the first three listed if they had that chance. Not sure it ever comes down to this, but wouldn’t want to chance it.
They may miss out by rejecting a few who would actually attend if admitted.
If, for example, there were 100 such students, but past experience indicates that only 1 would attend, they could still admit all 100 of them, assuming that that would increase the number of matriculants by 1. One extra top student may be a better student than one at the lower margin of admission that they would otherwise have to admit.
This applies to any school that rejects “overqualified” students based on assumed low yield.
@saskatchewan: The admissions office at WashU seems to be pretty separate from the financial aid office despite WashU being need-aware. My impression was that Fin Aid doesn’t really make that info available (other schools listed on FAFSA).
@Madeon: please stop making up things. There are plenty of ED admits who get good aid and many who don’t, but you are making total generalizations. There are more than a few people I knew who were fully covered and applied ED.
@ucbalumnus, yes, but that’s a small number. Losing out on those few kids while protecting their yield (and thus also their admit rate) may actually net them better quality applicants in the future (because many people are lemmings and automatically think that a lower admit rate = high selectivity = better school).
This is a second thread on one topic. That is a violation of the Terms of Service. Normally I would merge the threads, but in this case, given the way the replies would be ordered in the merged thread, it would be confusing. So I am just closing this one.