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Need-blind admissions
An admissions policy in which the applicant's ability to pay is not considered in the admit/deny decision.
Need-blind admissions means the admissions office makes admit/deny decisions without seeing the family's financial information. About 100 U.S. colleges describe themselves as need-blind for U.S. applicants — the most selective ones (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Amherst, Williams, etc.) also commit to meeting 100 % of demonstrated need. Most schools, however, are need-aware: they consider ability to pay especially for borderline applicants. International applicants face need-blind policies at a much smaller subset of schools (HYPS, MIT, Amherst, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Minerva).
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