Need Blind Admissions

Need Blind Admissions July 30, 2012 Need blind admissions is a farce. You heard it here first. Many universities including the highly selective universities profess to be need blind. That essentially means that they dont take whether or not you can pay your tuition into account when deciding on whether or not youre going to be admitted. But do you really believe thats the case? Do you really believe that a university doesnt take money into account at all when deciding on who will and wont be a member of their incoming class? Do universities really think the general public is this naive? The fact is that if a university were to admit a class in which every single student needed financial aid to cover the high cost of tuition, that university wouldnt be in business for very long. Its as simple as that. If every student needed full financial aid, theyd be digging deep into their endowments. Do you think universities would want to do this? Of course not? So how do universities avoid selecting incoming classes in which every single student requires financial aid? They certainly dont do admissions blindly. Need blind admissions is nice in theory but, in actuality, its a farce. You heard it here first. Need blind admissions is a farce. It sounds good. It makes universities sound good. It makes them sound fair and equal. But theyre not. And they should be honest about it. Its time for someone at a highly selective university to come forward and speak the truth about need blind admissions. Seriously. Its time. No more of this nonsense. The financials just wouldnt make sense. If theyre not willing to come forward and explain how need blind admissions is a farce, maybe they can at least try and outline the math for us. Because the math just doesnt add up.