<p>As I understand it, in the current economic situation, colleges tend to favor applicants who do not need financial aid. However, most top colleges claim to be need-blind. So the question is: is there any way to show them on the application that you don't need financial aid? For example, if I fill in my mom's occupation as a doctor and dad's occupation is an engineer, will the colleges be able to assume that I probably don't need financial aid? Or is there some other way of letting them know?</p>
<p>Don’t fill out FAFSA.</p>
<p>uh, I think on the common app itself (or is it the supplement?), there’s a question that asks “are you applying for financial aid?”
and you can put “no” lol</p>
<p>The applications often ask if you will be applying for financial aid. Just answer no. And don’t fill out the financial aid forms. Many schools are need blind and do not take your need or lack of need into account. Just don’t say no then turn around and apply for aid. Schools that are need aware or admissions will ask if you are going to apply for financial aid.</p>
<p>That’s not a question for every application though. I checked “no” for the schools for which it applies.</p>
<p>I clicked “no” but then I sent in CSS (international form) later in February. I don’t think the Common App button really matters. If you send in a financial form in February, they’ll know for sure you’re applying for aid.</p>
<p>Write your essay about your house on the French Riviera, lol.</p>
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<p>Most top colleges are needblind. They don’t need or want your money unless you’re talking 10,000,000+. Sorry, try again.</p>
<p>Start your essay with: </p>
<p>As I gazed out my Bentley’s tinted windows, not even my father’s picturesque Maryland Country Club me could take my mind off the greatest challenge I had ever indeed faced up to this point in my life… the annual regatta for the esteemed New England Prep School cup.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Actually lol’d.</p>
<p>“I quickly called for my Butler Pierre and politely solicited a bottle of ice cold Perrier, which he promptly procured. As I sat in the Bentley, I stared into the beautiful hillsides of the Maryland Country Club, once considered to be one of the finest sights in the country, and could not help thinking of the poor children of Africa and the plight they had to endure. Wiping the single teardrop that had formed at the corner of my eye, I regained my composure and exited the car, determined to take the New England Prep School cup like my father and my great-great-great-grandfathers before him.”</p>
<p>“As I pulled the oar with all of my strength, I felt what I imagine to be the deepest pain in the history of humanity, probably equivalent to the sensation of ‘getting capped’ or ‘getting popped,’ as they say in Baltimore, a city of which I have intimate knowledge, having been to several of its downtown restaurants for Super Sweet Sixteen parties.”</p>