<p>“For example, no college could make a commitment to increasing the percentage of students who are low-income if they were blind to their need. The flip side is that it is extremely, extremely unlikely that a college could maintain virtually exactly the same percentage of full-freighters year after year after year without knowing their (lack of) need status in advance.”</p>
<p>I don’t quite understand how you can make that assumption. I would think it is the other way around in that admission at highly selective colleges is favorably skewed toward those students who need major financial aids. Low income is a major hook, at least for the highly selective colleges.</p>