Boston University may offer financial aid to foreign students

International Students
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<p>From November 15 issue of The Daily Free Press, BU's newspaper. You can read the entire story at <a href="http://www.thedailyfreepress.com:%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.thedailyfreepress.com:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Boston University President Robert Brown is considering an initiative to provide greater financial aid to international students in an attempt to attract a more economically diverse group of students from abroad.</p>

<p>The President's Council on Boston University and the Global Future, formed by Brown in December 2005, recommended that the university work to draw more international students by making need-based financial aid available. Currently, only U.S. students are eligible for need-based aid.</p>

<p>The recommendation to increase international financial aid arose from the Council's deliberations, culminating in a report released in late September.</p>

<p>In the "Student Experience" section of the report, the Council said the interaction between domestic and international students may not represent as genuine of an exchange of cultures as possible, partly because "these [international] students are often from the wealthiest stratum of their country."</p>

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the Council said the interaction between domestic and international students may not represent as genuine of an exchange of cultures as possible, partly because "these [international] students are often from the wealthiest stratum of their country."

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What.....?</p>

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<p>I think it means that the foreign students currently at BU tend to be from the upper class, meaning that American students don't get the full benefit of mixing with people from other backgrounds - they're only exposed to rich foreigners.</p>

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<p>Yeah,a completely true comment............................
Its been a kind of TREND,that only upper class people can go to US for studies.......................but since,coz of hard efforts from many unis to support {international} students with fin.aid,the scenario is changin.......................</p>

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<p>Not True!</p>

<p>Ok, so I am not applying for finanacial Aid just because my dad is ok with spending ALOT of his savings on my education. Culturaly, I don't know how that makes me different.</p>

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<p>Universities apparently want diversity in everything, including the amount of money people's parents have saved.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the information, kinshasa. :)
Anyway, the link you provided is not the right link (I've tried to open it but failed). I searched in google and found out that the right link is <a href="http://www.dailyfreepress.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.dailyfreepress.com&lt;/a> (without 'the').</p>

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<p>Lakshya, diversity is about the kids whose dads are willing to spend ALOT of their savings on their children's education, but these savings are ridiculously small for the USA dimensions (I speak about countries where university professors, doctors etc make $5000-10000 per year). Aren't you different from them?</p>

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<p>Yes, you can't just save that much money to pay for four years of American education (around $150k for some schools) as a middle-class person, unless you've been at it for about eighty years.</p>

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<p>Sorry about the incorrect link. Glad you could find the right one.</p>

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<p>I still think they shouldnt have worded it that way, especially the "exchange of cultures" bit.
The word cultures should be changed.</p>

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<p>so when is this change goingto take effect??? this year??? lol</p>

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<p>Well,if its true,then I am gonna apply to Boston too...</p>

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<p>The earliest possible time would be for the class of 1012, probably even later because they first have to do some fundraising.</p>

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<p>b@r!um:you surely dont mean ''1012'',isnt it......''2012''?..........lol.....;)..</p>

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<p>actually I meant 10012 ;)</p>