Do Colleges Need to Be Need Blind?

OHMomof2
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:52:19 +0000

@juillet In fact, being need-blind might hinder their efforts to be inclusive, whereas being need-aware might help, depending on how they use it.

Amherst College calls their policy “need-affirmative”. Still plenty of full pay students, but they claim being low income is actually a plus in admissions.