Carleton or Grinnell?

<p>I'm applying FA to Oberlin and not to Grinnell. I think if Oberlin decides I'm not the kind of students they would pay for, they would just drop me instead of reducing the amount of aid. I'll go to pretty much any liberal arts college which takes off my burden of 50k a year unless the amount of aid is like, less than 10k a year.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure I understand your reasoning here. If you apply for FA one place, why not everywhere? And you also need to make sure before applying ED that the school will release you from the agreement if you don't think FA is good enough.</p>

<p>Because applying for FA will actually decrease your chances of admission. I'll check on that, though.</p>

<p>I don't think so at Grinnell. Their website says they give $1 million per year in aid to international students and the mean award "to those aided" is $28,200. Of course, admissions is competitive.</p>

<p>Look for schools that say they are need blind. Then the application for financial aid does not effect admission. Williams is need blind for internationals and there are others. I think perhaps Middlebury and Amherst is following suit as well.</p>

<p>Then there are schools that are really looking to increase their international presence, like Grinnell. I think Colby is one. You could get info. from the website.</p>

<p>The SUNY schools are very reasonable and some have LAC-like properties, so you might want to look at those as well. They offer aid, too.</p>

<p>I just called Grinnell and Colby and found out they are more generous in international aid than I'd imagined. Thank you bethievt and mythmom! Please suggest me any other schools you know of that give fair amount of aid to int'ls.</p>

<p>Happy to be of help.</p>