More and more colleges are no longer “need blind” when it comes to college admissions.
The teaser in email from the New York times was promising:
It’s generally a good article, pointing out the arbitrary definition of need and how it varies from one college to another. It demonstrates how out-of pocket costs for any student can swing wildly, even among the institutions that claim to meet full need (do loans count?) But the article falls short in one important area: While there is at least one expert who casts some doubt on the concept of “need-blind admissions,” the premise largely survives the article unscathed.
I’ve said before, and will say it again: There is no such thing as need blind admissions.
There are two big reasons for this:
- First, at the overwhelming majority of colleges and universities, enrolling the overwhelming majority of college students, there is no full-pay student waiting in line to take the spot of a poor student who is denied…
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