<p>Totally dewd. </p>
<p>Party Venue:</p>
<p>Bellagio
The Strip
LV</p>
<p>Be there. :)</p>
<p>Excellent!
Oh and how’s the foooood?
I hope you’re not planning to make us pay.Atleast not if I bring a present?</p>
<p>Food? Attend the party and find out eh ;)</p>
<p>Nah, I’m not making you’ll pay but you’ll have to give me a present worth atleast $1000</p>
<p>You’re pricey.I was planning to pick up something from the roadside. :P</p>
<p>1000 rupees? :(</p>
<p>God aniruddh,you rip off,you!
I’ll get you CWG memorabilia. Lol.
I’ll get you the stinky sock of the world no. 1 Squash athlete who just beat the girl from our country.</p>
<p>Im sure that’ll be worth more than a 1000 bucks.A hundred years from now.
Think of it as investment.Where Im paying.</p>
<p>@pixie - you started this…
@aniruddh - whats ur problem…
@both - stop it guys… it all started with my personality analysis and I never wanted to end it like this… come on guys … just chill…</p>
<p>Well, your 11th grade aggregate seems to be the only downer in your entire app. And 740 is a pretty decent score in MathII. I’d say that you have a shot at Yale, Penn and Cornell. Cross out Chicago, Stanford, Middlebury and Northwestern. They barely provide aid to international students.</p>
<p>Realistically speaking, focus more on colleges such as Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell when you apply. Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore and Middlebury are small liberal arts colleges, with tiny class sizes. Thus, you can bet that they are <em>hyper-selective</em> for internationals, and worse for those who demand aid (they enroll only a handful of students).</p>
<p>Don’t even think about Columbia or University of Chicago. They don’t have aid awards for internationals, and are extremely selective in offering scholarships. I’m not sure if Columbia even offers the latter.</p>
<p>I’d also advise you to cut down on the recommendation letters. I saw a friend of mine making the same mistake last year, and hence I warn you. While sending a large number of appreciation letters may often seem like a lucrative option, try selecting and sending two letters at the most. College officials and admission officers often state that too much material (including too many reco letters) can often spoil your chances at admission, because it doesn’t allow them to sift through the actually <em>valuable</em> information on your app. </p>
<p>Lastly, best of luck!</p>
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<p>Just over 10% of students at Middlebury are international students, and roughly 80% of these international students receive some financial aid. The average financial aid award for international students at Middlebury is over $42,000/year. Middlebury’s financial aid budget for internationals is around $8,000,000/year.</p>
<p>Saw 40 new posts since the last time I checked and got really excited, thought collegeconfidential was the best place ever to clear doubts with so many helpful people, little did I know how useless most of the posts would be <em>SIGH</em>. Oh, who cares, the replies cracked me up :D</p>
<p>columbialove-Think I might have a shot at Penn? That certainly cheers me up. But, as arcadia pointed out, I thought middlebury and stanford have pretty decent aid programs or am I mistaken there?</p>
<p>collegebored11-That seems like good advice. I think I’ll concentrate on colleges with large class sizes and send the recommendation letters of my school principal and economics teacher.</p>
<p>Lastly, how are Wesleyan and Oberlin?</p>
<p>nban92: You want to be careful around here. A lot of advice is provided by high school and first year college students. Don’t mess up your college choices.</p>
<p>I’m not convinced by arcadia’s comment about Middlebury. If I’m not wrong, they get pretty selective and fussy with international students who ask for aid. </p>
<p>I read somewhere that Penn and Cornell admit about 30 students from India, so yeah, you should definitely apply. With your stats, you do have a chance at those places. Cornell has the nice Tata scholarship as well, so thats an incentive ;)</p>
<p>Stanford rarely provides aid to international scholars. If I am not wrong, probably 1-2 intl admits get proper aid at Stanford.</p>
<p>Also, collegebored11 does have a valid, logical point about the LACs. That is some quality advice, I’d say. Besides, apart from Amherst, I don’t think any other LAC provides aid. Earning a scholarship requires a remarkable application.</p>
<p>blue_box: Don’t worry, I will be careful. I’m using this thread more for the purpose for confirmation than anything else. Thanks for pointing that my identity’s kinda easy to figure out. Doesn’t quite matter, though. You’re from RKP too, right? I think I know you… AA?</p>
<p>Yea, I’m Aditya.
Middlebury was need-blind for internationals a year or two back. I don’t think they’ll go from need-blind to selective and fussy in the span of a year.</p>
<p>I don’t know about Middlebury but liberal arts colleges (in general) tend to be pretty finicky toward aid-demanding foreign applicants. As i explained before: it is primarily because of their small class sizes. anyway you could try Oberlin (not sure about their aid policy) and I dunno if Oberlin is good for econs or international relations either. And as for Wesleyan - “Financial aid for foreign students is extremely limited and is awarded on the basis of both exceptional qualifications and demonstrated need.” so go figure. also you should reconsider the notion that CC is very helpful. trust me: most threads that I find are inordinately spammed to the core.</p>
<p>Hmm, taking what you’ve said into consideration…
Yale, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, Middlebury, Williams, Amherst
How’s that for a list? Should I have a go at Harvard as well or is that too implausible?</p>
<p>Pixie, yeah cool! Get me a stinky sock, I wouldn’t mind :P</p>
<p>Ab tu dekh… :P</p>
<p>@blue_box
If your logic was indeed true, then wouldn’t that apply to Williams as well?? But empirical evidence points to the contrary. Not many kids from India made it to Williams, did they? I think the number was close to 3. Hence, it doesn’t matter if LACs like Williams, Middlebury and Swarthmore may have been need blind in the past, what matters is the present scenario. And at the moment, admission to these LACs is extremely selective for intl students requiring aid.</p>