Dartmouth now need blind for International Admissions

International Students
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<p><a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/01/22.html[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/01/22.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The key elements of the intiative, which will go into effect for the coming academic year, include:

  1. Free tuition for students who come from families with annual incomes below $75,000
  2. Replacing loans with scholarships
  3. Need blind admissions for international students
  4. Junior leave term with no earnings expectation</p>
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<p>Whoa let me get this straight, all internationals applicants who applied for Fall 2008 will be need blind on admissions ?</p>

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<p>YES! OMG! This is such good news! I hope Stanford also considers doing so.</p>

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<p>Great news!</p>

<p>Imagine if the other Ivies decide to do the same</p>

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<p>i just love it</p>

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<p>One more reason to love Dartmouth!</p>

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<p>

Dartmouth joins quite a few other schools as need-blind on admissions. But they tend to be the top schools. MIT has always been need-blind. Harvard, Yale and Princeton have all adopted need blind-ness at various times. Williams and Middlebury are also need-blind. </p>

<p>Also keep in mind that there is a difference between “need-blind” (we won’t look at ability to pay in the admissions decision) and “full-need” (we will guarantee to meet an applicants full need for all four years of their education). Even there there are differences, for example, Princeton eliminated all loans from their need packages, and give only grants. MIT is full need, but that includes loans. Harvard tiers it based on family income, but with reasonably generous minimums.</p>

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<p>Oh man, that is awesome news!</p>

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<p>What about those who applied ED to Dartmouth and were perhaps rejected on the basis of their financial aid requirements? If their applications aren’t reconsidered that’s gonna be pretty unfair.</p>

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<p>you don’t roll out a program with such a major impact without a boatload of thought and consideration. i’m pretty sure that admissions office had a heads-up about the new policies… i thus don’t think it’s fair to automatically assume that they already didn’t disregard whether int’ls needed aid, or not.</p>

<p>also, i doubt that there’s more than a handful of international who were rejected specifically because they needed aid. remember, this ED phase was incredibly competitive, with a 30+% increase in international applicants from the year before.</p>

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<p>Hmm yeah that’s true… they must have kept it in mind during the ED stage…</p>

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<p>Mikalye when I said “the other Ivies” I meant Columbia,Brown and Penn.</p>

<p>Anyway,I liked the second part of your post.</p>