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need-blind

need-blind adjective: that requires the admitting institution to not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.

Adjective

need-blind (not comparable)

  1. (US) That requires the admitting institution to not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.
  2. (US) Having such an admission policy.
    • In a year, give or take, student loans would come due―Harvard was need-blind (that was significantly why he had chosen it), but even his generous financial aid package didn’t cover everything.2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), pages 78-79

Questions about need-blind

What does need-blind mean?
Need-blind means that requires the admitting institution to not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.
What part of speech is need-blind?
Need-blind is an adjective.

Words near need-blind in the dictionary

  1. need one's eyes checked
  2. need one's head examined
  3. need to
  4. need'st
  5. need-based
  6. need-blind
  7. need-fire
  8. need-fires
  9. need-not
  10. need-nots
  11. need-to-know

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