Canadian Citizen doing ED for Penn? financial and other misc.

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<p>I'm a canadian citizen planning to apply Early Decision for Penn, mainly because I don't want to waste it. One of my top choices is McGill University, which would be financially beneficial for me seeing as I am a canadian, but if I could get in Penn with decent financial aid that would be brilliant as well. </p>

<p>I did the Brown Financial Aid calculator and it said Brown would likely give me 47k. That seemed unbelievable. Penn's little chart said that people of 100k-120k income (my family) would get around 30k which is still REALLY good. Would these stats still apply to Canadian citizens? I wouldn't be doing international admission would I?</p>

<p>Also how is Penn compared to Brown in terms of social scene, students, and workload? From what I hear about Brown it's fairly liberal with diverse and friendly kids, with a fairly relaxed courses. Very appealing to me. The reason I'm considering Penn over Brown is that Brown doesn't do need-blind admission, and I'm a bit worried about that, plus 4 other kids (higher class rank and SAT than me) at my school are also EDing Brown. </p>

<p>Thoughts? Thanks.</p>

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<p>oh nvm Brown is now need-blind, guess my source was too old. Although I still read it gave less aid than other schools</p>