Do Colleges Need to Be Need Blind?

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@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.

https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/issues/2011summer/nationalinterest