<p>Wondering if it is True or False (for what schools is it true or false) that acceptance is likely when you don’t need any financial aid (for an average student 3.6 GPA, 1960 SAT, 28 ACT). </p>
<p>Also wondering, if this apply to top tier Ivy League, i.e. Harvard, Princeton, Yale?</p>
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<p>First, do some research yourself by looking up the financial aid policies for all the schools you’re looking at. Are these schools need blind? Because if so, then your ability to pay will not be taken into account during admissions. If the school is not need blind, then your ability to pay may be a “tip” factor if it comes down to you and similarly qualified applicants who require aid.</p>
<p>The only way that “money” will get you into a need-blind school would be if there was a building on the campus named after your parents, or if your parents could be counted on/have donated millions of dollars, etc. But these—I’m both assuming and hoping—are extreme cases and are probably rare.</p>
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<p>Those three schools are need blind.</p>
<p>Thanks absent. It was something I heard somewhere. Yes. I’ve researched and found there a need blind schools, but I was hoping I might have a chance with my average student profile. You mentioned cases that are “extreme” and “rare.” I was wondering if you know of any parents whose donation has helped their child(ren) and/or how much or what was the minimum?</p>
<p>I would say a minimum would be 6 figures. I don’t see the point in doing this unless the family has well over $100 million.</p>
<p>Thanks. It sounds like 10-20M wouldn’t be enough. Do they conduct a search on your parents to obtain their profile–referring to $100M+ Can they do that on international students?</p>
<p>lol… do you even have 100M to donate?</p>
<p>seriously, if you did, why do you even need to go to school?</p>
<p>I appreciate your advice, but it is important to many families that their children obtain degrees from specific schools. I thought I heard a donation got a family friend in. So, I was wondering. Thank you.</p>
<p>donating doesn’t guarantee acceptance. Also, just because you have 100M doesn’t mean you’ll donate.</p>
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how many of those have enough money to make a difference?</p>
<p>I think you’ll have to somehow indicate that you might donate.</p>
<p>yes. you are right. his parents made many donations before he got in. another friend’s parents made donations but then didn’t want to go to college.</p>
<p>At all but the richest colleges, a million dollars will buy a mostly qualified kid in. The lower you go in terms of wealth of college, the less it will take. A few hundred thousand would speak at many second tier schools. At HYP, double digit millions was the standard, but the are all hurting so I’d have to imagine a few million with the inference of more to come would get some attention.</p>
<p>Note: the kid can not be outrageously out of range.</p>