<p>Oh please, even you should be able comprehend what MHC plainly states on their website.
Smith and MHC employ exactly the same need-sensitive policy.
<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/sfs/aid_policy.php”>http://www.smith.edu/sfs/aid_policy.php</a></p>
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<a href=“https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sfs/first_year/prospective_faq”>https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sfs/first_year/prospective_faq</a></p>
<p>Momneed, if you’re still confused, I implore you to attempt to use a modicum of objective reasoning. Do you honestly believe that the admission officers have the time to coordinate with the financial aid officers and sort out the minutia and calculate and verify the aid requirements for almost four thousand applications? Of course they don’t. The vast majorly of the students are admitted need-blind. After the admission office reaches ~90+percent of the targeted number of admits, <em>then</em> the financial aid office calculates how much aid has been awarded. That number minus the total amount of aid that has been budgeted is then the number the admissions officers have to work with when determining how many of the marginal students will receive the fat envelope. It’s during this last process that MHC becomes need-aware. After admitting the vast majority of class and it’s determined that the aid budget has been almost exhausted, the students who require little or no aid will be the first admitted during this last round. Some years there are sufficient funds remaining and need-awareness isn’t as critical for the marginal applicants.</p>
<p>MHC, as well as other colleges that were no longer need-blind, wrestled with and decided a number of years ago that if aid is a determining factor for even one student, the college’s aid policy has to be stated as need-aware. Unfortunately, the colleges assumed that its intended audience had more intelligence and reading comprehension than apparently they do.</p>