Hi!
I am an international student asking for aid, and these are the results I have got.
Soka University of America - full ride (Aid + loans + merit scholarship)
Tulane University - merit scholarship of $40,000
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (no scholarship)
Wageningen University - (Dutch School, no scholarship, COA $22,000)
I have been also shortlisted as an interviewee of Yale NUS College.
I am having a hard time choosing my college—where should I go?
Thanks
I’ll leave out Yale-NUS since it’s not a confirmed admittance yet.
I know nothing about Wageningen University, although from a quick search through Google, it seems like a pretty good school. I have a friend who grew up in the US but went to the Netherlands for university, and he seemed to get a great education there.
With no aid, forget about North Carolina. International students don’t get financial aid from public, state universities like North Carolina, and it’s not going to be worth full tuition.
In the US, Tulane is well known and highly respected. If you can cover the extra costs outside of the merit scholarship, that would be my top choice.
Very few people in the USA will know of Soka, since it’s a relatively new and very small school. If you’re concerned about prestige, I wouldn’t go there. If you’re looking for a good education where most of the costs are covered, I’d certainly consider it.
What’s your major going to be?
I will be majoring in Environmental Studies! I heard that Wageningen is strong in my intended major.
What is the net cost of each school (tuition, fee, room and board less grants/scholarships). Do not include loans in this calculation.
Soka is not a full ride if it includes loans. How much is the net cost before loans?
What can your family afford to pay?
Thoughts @MYOS1634?
If you are asking for aid then you should remove UNC, since you didn’t get any.
What can your family afford to pay?
thx for the response
For SUA it includes loans of about 15k
For Tulane I have to pay $37k
For UNC I have to pay $52k
For Wageningen I have to pay about $22k
My parents are able to cover about $40k.
Run your numbers here: https://www.finaid.org/calculators/awardletteradvanced.phtml
Don’t forget to include figures for travel to and from your home once or twice each year.
If your parents can only pay $40k each year, the only clearly affordable option is Wageningen. Wageningen is excellent. Congratulations on your admission there!
$15k in loans each year is too much even for a US student! That is nearly three times what a US student is allowed to borrow with the standard federal loans. No, you absolutely don’t want to graduate with a debt of $60k or more!
Do you have any decent options in your own country?
Is this a website you started?? You reply to ever mention of Tulane with this exact post.
@happymomof1
well since my parents can pay 40k, I guess Tulane and SUA are also options. Any comments on that? (I can pay 15k for Soka rather than accepting their loan offer)