<p>Purdue is <em>not</em> generous to international students.</p>
<p>Are you sure he had a 3.2 GPA? That’s very surprising. Anyway, need-blind schools are only for the most competitive students, and although having need won’t hurt you, the competition certainly would. Amherst’s acceptance rate for internationals is 7%. At Vassar, for aid-seeking intls, the acceptance rate is 9%ish. Clearly the need-aware status doesn’t matter THAT much as the odds of an international getting accepted to either school are the same, really.</p>