Need-blind admission
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Need-blind admission is a U.S. term denoting a college admission policy in which the admitting institution claims not to consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission. Generally, an increase in students admitted under a need-blind policy and needing financial aid requires the institution to back the policy with an ample endowment or source of funding.
Generally, a need-blind admissions system is rare. Most universities cannot offer it and not all that do offer it to all students; many schools offer need-blind admission to American first-year students but not to internationals or to transfer students.
Skeptics point to the steady amount of people accepted with aid at many need-blind schools, claiming that although the school calls itself "need-blind," the amount of students receiving aid remains the same each year, leading them to believe that the school has limited aid to give.
Incomplete list of institutions operating under a need-blind policy
- Amherst College
- Boston College
- California Institute of Technology
- Columbia University
- Cooper Union
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- Haverford College
- Lawrence University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Middlebury College
- Pomona College
- Princeton University
- Stanford University
- Swarthmore College
- University of Chicago
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Richmond
- Wesleyan University
- Williams College
- Yale University
Incomplete list of institutions actively pursuing a need-blind policy
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