Hello!
Is there anyone from international students who transferred to Columbia U via 3+2 program and got some aid?
From my school every year around 10 people transfer to Columbia via 3+2, but I haven’t met any international student who did that to learn how much aid they usually get.
Thank you for any info provided.
I would say to not expect any fin aid.
I have met a few international students who wanted to pursue a 3+2 program, and none of them did because none of them got offered sufficient financial aid to make it feasible (usually no aid at all).
My advice would be to make other plans if you cannot afford the cost of such programs without assistance.
Columbia has measly financial aid in general for transfer students and thus the priority goes to domestic applicants. Finally, even for freshmen internationals they are need-aware and thus for international transfers, they likely have enough fin aid for very few extremely exceptional people and even then I doubt its full-tuition and would be loan based.