<p>I understand your point, texaspg, and I won’t deny it has merit. If being need aware is a policy they have willingly undertaken because it is good for the university (which is the position taken by Wrighton as he stated in that article:
then why not make it clear in the admissions portion of the website? Having said that, I also understand their wanting to avoid getting into long debates about this policy, since a lot of people have the highly mistaken notion that economics shouldn’t be a factor as to whether one attends WUSTL or a state school.</p>
<p>As I stated before, if a school doesn’t claim to be need blind, one should assume they are need aware. Actually, I remember looking at the web site about 5 years ago and they did say they were need aware, and it does appear they have eliminated being as open about this. But I wasn’t saying they “always admitted to being need aware” on the web site, I was saying that, if asked, they always acknowledged this policy, as far as I knew. Thentheresme’s comment, along with the GW Hatchet article, appears to confirm this. In this day and age, a simple web search makes it clear quickly that WUSTL is need aware.</p>