{"id":6469,"date":"2017-09-18T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/?page_id=6469"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:57:24","slug":"resourcesfinance-my-educationwhat-is-need-blind-financial-aid-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/resources\/finance-my-education\/what-is-need-blind-financial-aid.html","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Need Blind\u2019 Financial Aid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>If you want to study in the US, and unable to pay the high tuition fees, you can avail of a special kind of financial aid which is particularly distinctive to the US, called the \u201cneed-blind&#8221; aid. Need blind means an institution has an official policy of not considering applicants\u2019 financial resources when deciding whether to offer them a place. This policy may be extended to all students, including international students. Here is a detailed explanation of need blind financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>A term that students often come across when exploring their various financial aid options is \u201c<strong>need-blind<\/strong>\u201d. This simply means that students are evaluated regardless of their ability to pay full-tuition costs or not. However, only five schools &#8211; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, and MIT are need-blind regardless of the student\u2019s country of origin. This means that if accepted, students obtain the necessary financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>Most other schools don\u2019t employ this need-blind policy. Instead they are \u201c<em>need-aware<\/em>\u201d or \u201c<em>need-sensitive<\/em>\u201d meaning if you indicate the need for financial aid, your application process will be looked at with that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>So when asking for need-based aid at a University, remember most Universities will be taking this into account and your ability to pay may determine your admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>If you want to study in the US, and unable to pay the high tuition fees, you can avail of a special kind of financial aid which is particularly distinctive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7034,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6469\/revisions\/7034"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reachivy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}