I'd like to get parents' feedback on this article, which I know is about a year old:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bev-taylor/need-blind-admissions-is-_b_5615698.html
Here is why: My sister wants to apply for financial aid and her son is applying to a couple of schools that claim to be need blind. The NPC on the schools' websites are saying that they wouldn't get much if anything. However, they were hoping to write a letter of special circumstances. But if all that is going to affect their kid's chances of getting in without them really getting much in the end, then they may rethink the whole thing. (Of course that means they may not be able to swing it in the end, but I think they still hope that something may change at some point. Don't want to argue their strategy, but do want to know if anyone thinks the article above has any truth to it.)
Interestingly, the schools who are claiming to be need blind ask right on the application if the student will be applying for financial aid, and not all schools do. This made them especially concerned.
Thanks for any input.
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