Financial aid from the second year on?

thumper1
Sat, 05 Sep 2015 16:30:28 +0000

Your parents are wrong. Stanford admissions is need blind…meaning that admissions does NOT know your financial need when considering your application for admission.

And anyway…if you don’t have financial need…why would it matter if the school DID consider your ability to pay. They would be delighted to accept a full pay student…BUT this doesn’t apply to Stanford…at all. The school does not consider your ability to pay at all when considering your application for admission.

Financial aid and admissions are not located in the same room. Tens of thousands of students apply to Stanford. Do your parents think the adcoms have the time…or inclination…to walk to another place to ask financial aid what your need is? The adcoms do not do this at all at Stanford…because that isn’t considered when you apply.

If you don’t need aid, fine don’t apply…but the full cost of attending is near $70,000 a year. What good will an acceptance do you if you can’t afford to pay this…and COULD have gotten need based aid.