Both my sons so….two! One granddaughter was just accepted into Auburn and has offers from UNCW and UNCG. I saw the story of the young lady you mentioned on the evening news a few years ago. Good on Harvard and the young lady! Plus great PR for the school as well!
Need blind admission simply means that an applicants financial need doesn’t factor in the admissions decision. Nor does it factor in that 100% of the applicants need be met.
Yet again you infer that Yale offers something that many other universities don’t! There are more than 100 schools that offer need blind admission all over the country! look it up if you’re so inclined.
I’ve been Crystal clear on this. Need blind admissions, followed by need based aid is different.
I infer nothing. I state plainly, and for the record, that need blind admission, coupled with need based aid, is fundamentally different.
Need-based aid does in fact meet 100% of the need.
It means that a kid like the young lady from Harvard, gets every need met, including her transportation, personal and laundry expenses in addition to the usual room, board, tuition, fees, and books.
There are only 12 schools in the country that offer both.
Yale is one of them, Auburn is not.
You keep wanting to distort that fact and make it sound like Yale is the equivalent of other schools, or perhaps that the other schools are the equivalent of Yale.
But that is simply not the case. It is absolutely not the case.
There are a very few schools, 12 actual schools by my count, that meet 100% of the need, that calculate need correctly, and that then give away that amount of aid.
Not a loan, not a sports scholarship, not even a merit based scholarship, true need based aid.
Very different than other schools offer. That is the key point.
The students are admitted without regard for their ability to pay, and the school then provides all of the need. ALL of it.
I’m going to pick on a very good school here: Middlebury.
Middlebury is a fine school. Among the most competitive. But their $500 million endowment does not allow for the above. They have to admit based on ability to pay. They are no different than 99% of the schools in the country.
Contrast it with Williams. Similar academic credentials, though I might argue that Williams is slightly more competitive. Similar class size. $2 billion endowment. They admit need blind and they then meet 100% of that need. They can. They apply their endowment to achieve that goal. Williams is among the dozen that actually offers an “ivy league” education to everyone, regardless of their economic background.
They have to meet the academic standard, of course, and they have to be admitted. But once admitted, they truly can attend, in a way that very, very few schools offer.
Those 12 schools, including Harvard, Williams, and Yale, are fundamentally different than the rest.
That is clear when you dig into the policies and outcomes of financial aid across schools.