Need-blind admission is a term used in the United States denoting a college admission policy in which the admitting institution does not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.
1) U.S. institutions that are need-blind and meet full demonstrated need for both U.S. and international students:
- Amherst College[3]
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Princeton University[4]
- Yale University[5]
A number of U.S. institutions of higher learning offer both need-blind admissions and meet full demonstrated need for students. However, these institutions are need-aware when it comes to international student admissions.
- Albright College [6]
- Barnard College (need-aware for transfer students)[7]
- Boston College
- Bowdoin College (need-aware for transfer students)[8]
- Brandeis University(need-aware for transfer students)[9]
- Brown University (need-aware for international and transfer students)
- California Institute of Technology
- Claremont McKenna College
- College of the Holy Cross
- Columbia University (also meets full need for "eligible noncitizens") [10]
- Cornell University[11]
- Dartmouth College
- Davidson College
- Duke University[12]
- Emory University
- Georgetown University (need-blind for all applicants)[13]
- Grinnell College
- Hamilton College[14]
- Haverford College
- Harvey Mudd College[15]
- Johns Hopkins University[16]
- Lehigh University
- Middlebury College
- Northwestern University
- Olin College[17]
- Pomona College
- Rice University[18]
- Soka University of America[19]
- St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)[20]
- Stanford University
- Swarthmore College
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan (in-state students only)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[21]
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Richmond
- University of Rochester (also applies for Canadian and Mexican students)
- University of Southern California[22]
- University of Virginia[23]
- Vanderbilt University
- Vassar College[24][25]
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
