<p>I wonder about an amount of financial aid Brown gives each international student. My friends said that due to its non-needblind policy toward non-UScitizen, it may be impossible for me since my family only can contribute less than 1000$ per year. Any experience or comment is really helpful. Do you know any international student getting full aid at Brown?
Love Brown so much but I am worried that ED may hurt the admission decision to internationals?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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If you need significant FA, particularly as an international student, I wouldn’t apply ED, since even if you do get in, you’d be bound to Brown regardless of what you’re given for FA.</p>
<p>Also, as far as I know, admission is not need-blind for internationals, and the FA is limited, for internationals.</p>
<p>Out of about 9 people from my country here, 8 got in ED, and 7 of those get full aid. Yes, the only dumb ass left is me.</p>
<p>Your chances to get in will be almost proportional to how much you can contribute(sort of). But once in, unless your parents are in an unusual situation (have stocks, businesses etc but don’t actually win a lot from them) the aid you get is what you ask. In the FA application they ask how much you can contribute. I have yet to hear of anyone being asked for more, if they offered a sensible amount to begin with. Usually if it’s not enough they will just reject you.</p>
<p>You’re gonna have to decide how much it’s worth offering in order to increase your chances a bit. If you offer a lot, your chances will be significantly higher (ie, if you cover full cost, you’re on the same playing ground with domestic students), but maybe your application is excellent, and you could have gotten away with paying much less. Needless to say, if you go overkill, Brown won’t say oh that’s too much, you’re in regardless, you can pay less. They’ll just rub their greedy little hands together and be like “hah, here’s another sucker”.</p>
<p>Oh but just keep in mind that besides what you will contribute directly, you’ll also need money for travel(~2000-2500), books(500-1000 unless you steal them online or abuse the library/bookstore like any normal person), sometimes medical insurance (2500), and then campus employment(2500), everything per year. So, see what money you have available, deduct these extra expenses (which as you see can get pretty high), and only then offer the rest to Brown. If you don’t have enough money to cover even that, you will probably get some extra compensations, but don’t count on them (note that since I’m not american like y’all, I fail to see loans as an actual form help of any kind).</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. In my country, one ED and RD this year but every year it is a UCWer that got ED into Brown and in my opinion, they have edge on the competition due to their Davis scholarship.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s pretty true, UCW-ers are starting to fill many of the spots for internationals. I have learned from several sources that brown has some kind of “contract” with them, and has some quotas they need to reach.</p>
<p>And beats me why, the UCW-ers I’ve met so far are really disconnected folks, big ideals, but no ideas. Oh wait, maybe that’s why</p>