<p>I can’t answer on behalf of the admissions office, and why we’re not going “YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY WE HAVE FREE MONEYZ FOR JOO” is, to be honest, a surprise for me.</p>
<p>This is 100 million dollars we’re talking about, though, and the announcement was made only last April-- it could be that it’s going to take some time before the fin aid office and others determine exactly how this money is going to be handled and therefore want to reserve making things uberexplicit until they know what’s going on. It does seem to be, well… not particularly well-advertised.</p>
<p>That said, Chicago is one of a list of small schools that is need-blind, and one of an even smaller list of schools that guarantees to match demonstrated need. It’s somewhat sad that the schools that are thought of as the most “elitist” and most expensive in the nation often have the best finance options for low and middle-income students.</p>