elephant in the room ...

ccuser18
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:46:46 +0000

Many of the accepted students who don’t need financial aid also have great stats (as do many non-accepted students, but not everyone can get in).

The one thing that Freakonomics taught me is that just because two things seem to go together (in this case an acceptance and no need for FA) it does not mean that there is a causality. Many of the accepted kids in the upper income brackets have good resources to raise their stats, participate in a bunch of activities, and put together a good app, thus helping their chances.

Sure they may not be need-blind, but that does not mean it has to the dominant factor.