chances for indian nerd from jersey?

cc102
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:53:56 +0000

i don’t think makingapoint is THAT inaccurate at all. i’ve spoken to a couple of adcom members “off the record” (family friends/parents of friends) of colgate, harvard, columbia and stanford. (is that a good enough mix for skeptics?) and they say that, over the past decade, it has pretty much become an established standard for all “need-blind” schools that applicants are given a slight boost if you don’t apply for finaid in RD and a larger (but still not significant - aka will maybe tip the scale in your favor if you’re one of the few lucky people that are “on the fence”) boost if you apply ED. at some schools, when you’re initially divided up into piles, you’re further separated by whether you’re applying for finaid or not.

i can only imagine how much MORE this will matter nowadays in the financial crisis. keep in mind that cornell accepted 100 extra kids this year, most of whom, are probably full-tuition paying students. furthermore, it’s even been said, repeatedly on this forum and at cornell itself, that, because the NYS government is cutting some funding, OOS kids in contract colleges (bc they now pay the same as everyone in the endowed colleges) are more likely to get in than in-state kids.