<p>I'm from Singapore and I've been accepted to a university with full financial aid. would my university cover my travel expenses i.e. flight between USA and SingaporE?</p>
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<p>Some college provide that aid. Bowdoin and Yale does. But the majority don't.</p>
<p>You should really ask your uni for that. I know for a fact that my friend got his travel expenses paid from a top liberal arts college.</p>
<p>screwitlah, you're going to princeton right? i think i've heard of at least one international student on CC who got his travel expenses covered by princeton. can't remember who and when though. but anyway, wouldn't it say so in your financial aid package?</p>
<p>i think harvard and williams also cover travel expenses. wesleyan as well, for the freeman asian scholarship, but only at the beginning and end of your undergrad studies. (--> hmm lisieux, deja vu much? haha)</p>
<p>Yup Williams covers travel expenses.</p>
<p>Deja vu indeed. :P</p>
<p>Swarthmore gives one trip after the 5th semester..</p>
<p>Williams seems to provide travel expenses every year.</p>
<p>eh yeah, thanks guys for all the tips. limitedvocab: yep i'm going princeton, i'm definitely gonna try and find out about my options then! i hope they'll agree to pay for Singapore Airlines :D</p>
<p>Anyone know any details about Amherst?</p>
<p>Do they buy the tickets for you, or just give you a fixed amount of moola?</p>
<p>I emailed Amherst and received an extremely confusing reply. Dammit, I've spent the last two hours trying to understand it.</p>
<p>Pm me it? =)</p>
<p>Carleton has put my travelling expenses at 1250$ for which i get aid.
I am guessing they included international travel since 1250 is too much for domestic travel.</p>
<p>isn't travelling expenses just the money you use during the year? like getting around the city near campus by bus or other means of transportation??</p>
<p>That would be considered part of your "personal expenses".</p>
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Alternatively, should you choose to purchase the plane ticket to Amherst on your own, then if the travel allowance in your aid package is greater than your family contribution, then you would in fact get a refund credited to your student account when you arrive on campus. That refund would be for the difference of the family contribution and your travel allowance
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<p>A part of the email I received from Amherst when I asked about travel expenses. Can anyone help be decipher this?:(</p>
<p>In numbers: </p>
<p>The travel allowance in your fin aid budget: $1200</p>
<p>Your family contribution (cost of attendance minus financial aid): $800
Amount credited to your account: $400</p>
<p>Your family contribution: $3600
Amount credited to your account: $0</p>
<p>Skunk: </p>
<p>Yeah, as barium said, in this case, you buy the ticket yourself, taking the money out of your own pocket. Since you need to pay a small amount to the college (as family contribution), the cash you used to pay for your own ticket will be counted as it. If the price of your ticket is more than your family contribution, you will be paying more than what the FA package stated for you to pay, so they will pay you the amount by which you exceed by. However, as the travel allowance is fixed--the amount of money allocated to your transport spending is fixed, they will not pay for plane tickets that exceed that amount. So if the price of your plane ticket exceeds your family contribution, they will pay for the ticket, the refund cap being the transport allowance, and subtract your family contribution from it. The amount you paid for the ticket now is counted as your family contribution and you will not be expected to pay more. </p>
<p>Still can't figured the contribution part. =\
Unless they mean that the one-way ticket cost will take up much of the transport allowance and they expect you to pay the excess (return-ticket) yourself. They're evil if they mean that.</p>
<p>Nadash, I too am shocked by that part. For the benefit of others, I'm posting it here:
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Because of the particulars of your financial situation, Amherst College will advance you 1 one-way ticket from Nepal to Amherst, the exact cost of which we will later charge to your student account. This arrangement will only apply to your first year of studies at Amherst, and the cost of the one-way ticket will be substituted for the student expense budget transportation allowance for the cost of a round-trip ticket which would otherwise be included in your financial aid package. (We substitute the cost of the one-way ticket for this round-trip allowance because purchasing any ticket in the United States for your city of departure is significantly more expensive.) On the first day of class, financial aid that is in place will credit your student account and pay for the ticket. Travel arrangement details will be made with the help of the Travel Loft, a travel agency located in Amherst, where Deborah (who I have CC'd) will be assisting us.
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The cost of the ticket is NOT greater than my travel allowance. The travel budget estimate is $2000, and a one way ticket to the U.S. costs about $1200.</p>
<p>Would you mind posting (or pm'ing me) the city of your departure in Nepal? I would just like to check how much a ticket is. If the college decides to purchase it from a travel agent, it could turn out significantly more expensive than the cheapest offer some internet website could give you. </p>
<p>I am sorry for you, but I understand Amherst's decision and it is not that much different from a few other top colleges' policies. After all, it is in the college's best interest to have you stay and work in the States during breaks so that you can contribute to your education financially rather than return to Nepal on their expense.</p>
<p>Let me add that you are extremely lucky that your college takes your transportation expenses into account at all. Mine does not. </p>
<p>Yearly budget for an international student at my college: Tuition, room, boad, health insurance, $2200 personal expenses. Expected contribution from summer earnings: $1800+.</p>
<p>The city of departure is Kathmandu. I'm considering taking the second alternative, i.e. buying the ticket myself. It WILL be a LOT cheaper. </p>
<p>Anybody have any idea if the college will bear my travel expenses if I take a different route - go to some other state and stay at a relatives for two weeks or so before leaving for Boston.</p>