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Will financial aid offers differ for 2 students with the same need when one applicant is more desirable?
My daughter needs a lot of financial aid and one book said to focus on schools where her scores and grades are in the top quartile of applicants. These schools say they are need blind and meet full-need, so the only thing I can think is that she would get more scholarships and fewer loans. Is it possible that the total package amount would differ as well?
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- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
No, at schools where need-blind admission is offered, the packages should be the same for students with the same need, assuming all else is equal. That is, a student who had more siblings than another or whose family had other and greater financial obligations would get more aid.
Usually, she wouldn't get more scholarships and fewer loans unless she just happened to meet some criterion for a specific scholarship available at the school. The loan amount would normally be the same for two students with the same level of need, again assuming all else is equal. Non-loan aid usually comes in the form of a grant, not a scholarship, though as I said, if she qualified for some endowed fund, she could be awarded money from it.
I attended schools with need-blind admissions and got great aid.