<p>terenc is right, at a need-blind school the ability to pay is not a factor in the decision to accept or reject an applicant.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of other factors that favor a wealthy applicant that could account for the higher % of students from wealthy families on a campus like Harvard. (Some of those factors have been brought up in earlier posts). So you could make the argument that a student from a wealthy family is more likely to end up at Harvard, but the singular factor of ability to pay is not taken into consideration by the adcom committee.</p>