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The Tough piece is misleading by FL_Irish
Or at least the summary beneath the title is. Trinity College is very explicitly not a need-blind institution. They are undoubtedly and self admittedly assembling classes based on tuition revenue needs. Using them as an example in suport of the assertion that "thirst for tuition revenue" trumps all at "elite" schools (almost all of which are need-blind and better resourced than Trinity) is disingenuous on Tough's part. As the piece gets around to acknowleding, there are several other factors in play that (to me) more readily explain why need-blind schools still admit predominantly affluent classes.