<p>Does being an international student, applying without any financial aid, have a negative impact on the admission factor/decision? If so, how bad?</p>
<p>It helps you if you dont need aid</p>
<p>and some of the schools don't give aid to internationals even!</p>
<p>Yeah, I know! But my main concern is whether being an International students will have negative affect in the admission.</p>
<p>I would suppose not...</p>
<p>It depends on the place you're applying to.
For example, Yale is need-blind and it won't affect your decision at all.
While other schools may be not need-blind (I forgot the word) and it will affect your decision.
Most of my schools don't offer need-based aid, but only offer scholarships, which is usually the case.</p>
<p>As a rule of thumb I would say that the more selective a university is, the more it hurts to be an international applicant. </p>
<p>At the top institutions, the international admission rate is significantly lower than the domestic rate; e.g. at MIT the international admit rate is 4% vs 16% domestic (13% overall). At less prestigious universities and non-need-blind small LACs, being an international student with the ability to pay actually helps your chances.</p>
<p>may not be need blind= need aware</p>
<p>are there people who apply for financial aid to some unis while not to the others?</p>
<p>There are. Some apply for aid to need-blind, while for a university which takes aid into consideration and you really have a "not so great" chance of getting in, some people don't apply for aid to avoid it from hindering their chances.</p>
<p>^^
which only makes sense if you CAN pay the costs because otherwise your admittance letter would be worthless - how would you attend the college?</p>
<p>My LAC's international acceptance rate was 9%. The regular admission rate was 28% or something like that. So yeah.</p>
<p>Yes, but how is the acceptance rate for intl's not applying for aid? I am really really curious about this number but I don't know any college that published it.</p>
<p>Rister, I think it's much higher than 10%, lmao, a friend of mine is paying full for every college and got into like 6 schools (and had a 300 pts lower SAT than I did), whereas I got into 3 with full aid.</p>
<p>it's a known fact that the international pool is much more competitive than the US/Canadian pool. Imagine the top students from 90+ countries vying for 10% of the places.</p>