<p>Vassar is need-blind. They don’t care about money when accepting you. Simple as that.</p>
<p>As for why there’s less middle class? Well, at colleges that meet full need, poor kids start out with 0 EFC. Rich kids have enough money that it doesn’t matter where they go.</p>
<p>But, since Vassar doesn’t give out any merit scholarships, if a middle class student is admitted and is said to pay 10k, but they get merit scholarships at state schools/other private schools (which many people who can be admitted to Vassar do), then their EFC might drop to 0 at the other institutions due to those scholarships. Many people I met at admitted student’s day who were middle class chose other colleges for this reason.</p>
<p>So no, it’s not that Vassar is segregating them. Vassar just doesn’t offer merit, which sometimes makes other colleges cheaper for the middle class. And, in all honesty, we have a sizable portion of the middle class, so…</p>
<p>As for the veterans? They all received Posse Scholarships, and there’s only, what, 7 of them? I don’t see how 7 people would skew anything.</p>