<p>Since Stanford is not need blind to internationals, I was wondering how much it would take to get accepted as an int'l needing FULL aid. So if anyone in that situation ever got accepted...please tell me your stats! </p>
<p>Thanks :D</p>
<p>I think that stat’s will take a back seat here. You have show true passion, paint a picture of you, make the adcoms want you to attend Stanford. Gotta write those essays!</p>
<p>Even then, it would be a crap shot.</p>
<p>I personally haven’t heard of anyone achieving that. Two of my friends, who both swept HYP eventually, were rejected by Stanford outright for, as they speculated, needing full aid.</p>
<p>I don’t believe I’ve heard of such a case either myself. I do know of one international student who got accepted to Stanford REA (and later to Harvard, though he still ended up attending Stanford), but he indicated that he was full-pay on his application.</p>
<p>I know of several people now at Stanford with full aid.Work on essays very seriously-make them as good as you possibly can.</p>
<p>Yes, there are numerous international students here who are receiving large amounts of financial aid. For international applicants, Stanford is currently need-aware, but that factor is by no means the most important one in admissions decisions. Also, Stanford is currently undertaking a review of its policies with respect to international applicants, and may become need-blind for them in the near future.</p>
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<p>Too bad I didn’t apply like, five years later so that policy would also apply to me. :p</p>
<p>^ The policy is in the review stage, so there’s no telling what may happen.
Fledgling, would you be considered an international applicant, if you have been living in the US for years?</p>
<p>Nope. I’m a Canadian citizen, and even though I applied for permanent resident status over a year ago (and got my application approved), I still haven’t received the actual green card. So until then, I think I’m an international.</p>
<p>^^^yeah if I go through grade 13…then take a gap year…that might help XD. Stanford receives sooo many great applicants each year, I felt like almost all the accepted applicants can be “substituted”…so I was wondering just how likely it is to not only get accepted…but to get money from Stanford…</p>
<p>There was this Chinese guy last year who had a 1700 SAT and came on here to ask for chances. Needless to say, he was massacred. But then he claimed to haven been admitted with full aid.</p>
<p>ΛΛprobably true.people on CC are just too absorbed into stats,forgetting that schools are looking for PEOPLE with actual personalites,not a whole class of 2400-types.Maxims such as you HAVE to get a 2200 on your SATs are just not true.Focus on showing them who you are and what you are about beyond the grades.</p>
<p>^While your assertion does hold some truth to it, almost every admitted student at schools like Stanford is compelling both on and off paper; that is, they have the stats AND THEN some. And the rest is what they like to call “competition”. Can an applicant with subpar stats get in? Yes, it has happened in the past and will continue to happen in the future. Now, was said applicant admitted just because he/she had a “nice personality”? No, it doesn’t work that way. He/She must have had another attribute that Stanford needed in order to put together a diverse class.</p>
<p>Assuming a prospective student can successfully convey his or her “nice personality” through the application, it is not a sufficient condition for acceptance into Stanford. Nor is it a necessary one, I presume.</p>
<p>*Can’t edit an old post. *Have.</p>
<p>there are several that i know</p>
<p>^NJDS do you know how they managed that incredible feat?</p>
<p>probably the same way everyone gets into stanford.
do well academically and have a convincing application
what convincing means to admissions staff is different in every case</p>