Can I rely 100% on the application papers which say that the application for financial support (which needs to be send together with the application) has no influence on the admission?
Somehow It would be very much understandable if they would tend to (given the situation of 2 candidates with the same potential, only one having applied for financial support) prefer the one who could pay for the LLM over somebody who would need additional souces from them.. I mean times are tough?!
In this light I am still thinking about applying for financial aid since I do not want to take the risk of negatively influencing my chances..
What do you think? Any insights on how the finance aid process works (and maybe my concerns are unnecessary) or ideas that could help me decide? I really would need the money but would rather try to get it from somewhere else if it even slightly raises my chances of bein accepted ..
thx

cwi
sorry if this appears an odd question to you but the American system of financial aid from universities is a total novelty for me as a European.