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- From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac)
- Subject: Re: Need-blind admissions?
- Message-ID: <zkessin.722552003@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <1992Nov23.183639.12562@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:53:23 GMT
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- tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
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-
- > How many of you attend schools that have (or claim to have)
- >need-blind admissions? I ask this because I just applied to a school (The
- >University of New Hampshire) that claims to, but has a rather interesting
- >way of handling it. I was told that I could be admitted, but only as a
- >"special student". I would be allowed to take a full course load and could
- >go on the waiting list for on-campus housing. The only real difference
- >between myself and any other undergrad would be that I would be ineleligible
- >for financial aid. In effect, I would be admitted as long as I had the
- >financial resources to pay for my education. This might not have bothered
- >me so much if they didn't claim that financial need did not affect
- >admission. Has anyone else run into this? Any comments?
-
- Brandeis is need blind, (and I have talked to our president who said
- we will stay that way) however in the future hte total aid avalable
- might not always go up as much as we would like (that is if the school
- does not have the $)
-
- --Zach
- Zachary Kessin
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