How need blind is need blind

Secret_Asian_Man
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:50:59 +0000

on paper, admissions folks say they are need blind. However, as techfreak said, if they run out of funds (e.g. during an economically bad time such as right now), colleges will go for the students who, while may not be the best, will definitely be able to pay tuition on their own. All this may just be speculation, but I go to a private school, and from our senior class of about 120, 3 got into MIT ED, 3 to Yale ED, and 2 to Stanford ED. I know these people, and don’t really find them to be hypsm material (1 girl had a 33 act, 3.6ish gpa, and didn’t take sat). I suspect those colleges took into account the fact that they are well off and will be able to pay tuition.



Did you read their application from top to bottom? Then please don’t speculate as to why they were accepted. Those institutions are need-blind. And just as a side note, MIT is EA, and Stanford and Yale are SCEA, not ED.

Colleges who “run out of funds” will state that they are no longer need blind. Note how even the top colleges with billions of dollars in endowment are not need blind to international students.