<p>Pls give me an average college (not in the top 50) that offers good financial aid to intl students. I want to be an engineering studnt so LACs are out of question since tey do not offer engineering courses</p>
<p>Would you be a competitive applicant for merit scholarships at an average college? That’s the only sort of financial aid you will find at average universities.</p>
<p>The best financial aid you can get is at the top schools. Why is it that you wouldn’t apply to these?</p>
<p>I am applying to mit, stanford, columbia, bostonU, and cornell. But I want to find good safety schools with good financial aid.</p>
<p>My SATs were not bad. I had a 2120. Alo, I have represented my country in two international competitions. So I am a pretty competitive student.</p>
<p>I am in the same situation, my SATs are 2120 too, but I think that there are none such schools. Usually only top schools give FA to internationals and if a bit “worse” school decides to do the same, it goes up and becomes more selective very quickly.</p>
<p>A few universities off the top of my head, though they may not offer an engineering major:</p>
<ul>
<li>Louisiana State University offers full-tuition scholarships to international students.</li>
<li>Southern Arkansas University has a number of scholarships that cover in-state tuition, room, board and a stipend for international students.</li>
<li>Georgia Southern University has full-tuition scholarships for students in their honors program.</li>
<li>The University of New Orleans has a number of full-tuition, room, board and stipend scholarships.</li>
<li>Texas Christian University considers international students for their freshmen scholarships, but the website does not specify the amount of the scholarships.</li>
<li>St. John’s University has full-tuition scholarships.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have some time on your hands, you could check all of the universities on the following list: [eduPASS</a> | Financial Aid for International Students | Schools with Aid for Undergraduates](<a href=“http://www.edupass.org/finaid/undergraduate.phtml]eduPASS”>http://www.edupass.org/finaid/undergraduate.phtml)</p>
<p>Just as an FYI, a few liberal arts colleges do have engineering programs as well as financial aid for international students: Lafayette, Swarthmore, Trinity College, Washington and Lee, and Hope College, among others. You can probably find more if you google a bit.</p>
<p>eduPASS is incorrect and out-dated. ASU doesn’t have any scholarship/aid at all.
Here are some small lists that are a little more accurate…</p>
<p>[Intlscholarships:</a> International Scholarships - International Financial Aid USA](<a href=“http://intlscholarships.googlepages.com/needbased]Intlscholarships:”>http://intlscholarships.googlepages.com/needbased)
[Schools</a> Awarding International Financial Aid<a href=“Select%20states%20individually,%20otherwise%20you%20will%20not%20get%20many%20colleges”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://www.internationalcounselor.org/College%20program/the%20list.htm]Colleges”>http://www.internationalcounselor.org/College%20program/the%20list.htm]Colleges</a> that offer money for international students](<a href=“http://www.internationalstudent.com/schools_awarding_aid/]Schools”>Schools Awarding International Financial Aid)</p>
<p>Not like these are very accurate, it’s just that they seem a little more recent.</p>
<p>Ah… Maybe. But quite a few colleges on eduPASS had little or no aid for international students, when I was doing my college search a few months back…</p>
<p>(Found all this out either by mailing the colleges or reading the websites.)</p>
<p>Thanks for those lists! Taken together they certainly expand the list of colleges international students can research for financial aid. But I am not convinced that they are much more recent. One of the lists claims that Bryn Mawr has a total of 94 international students. That’s a number from pre-2004 (not sure how much prior to 2004 because I do not have those statistics - in 2004, the college had more than 130 international students according to BMC’s Common Data Set).</p>
<p>tagbanda, I found the same thing with regards to the EduPass list you found. I e-mailed a couple of colleges which were generous according to the EduPass and Collegeboard, but did not seem to provide financial aid, and every.single.time I was told that those are athletic scholarships, not academic scholarships or need-based aid. </p>
<p>According to Collegeboard, ASU currently/very recently provided aid to 519 international students, with an average of $10,500 (~half tuition) per student. I assume that those are a mix of athletic scholarships and small endowed scholarships for returning students because ASU is very big on sports.</p>
<p>P.S. in post #10 tagbanda replied to my speculation about athletic scholarships at ASU, which I deleted and rewrote to expand on the idea.</p>
<p>About Bryn Mawr, the CDS might be referring to number of students while the number the list is giving might refer to the number receiving aid. These lists (the ones I posted) were more helpful. Might not be more recent but they are at least a little more accurate and seem to be better researched ones).</p>
<p>And yes, I stopped looking at the College Board statistics a week after I began my college search.</p>
<p>Well, the list had two columns, one for the total number of international students and another for the number of international students on financial aid. I don’t think I misread the list on that aspect.</p>
<p>The lists you posted are certainly more helpful in the sense that they only seem to list colleges with need-based aid or academic scholarships, which is what most CC posters are interested in. The eduPass list and Collegeboard will indicate any sort of financial assistance, regardless what it is awarded for (athletic, music, etc). On the other hand, two of the three lists you posted are not very comprehensive by themselves, but taken together they should definitely cover the basics!</p>
<p>Thanks again for posting them! I should bookmark them at some point. The primary reason I keep referring to the eduPass list is that I remember the term “eduPass” and can find the list in a matter of seconds via Google ;)</p>
<p>I mailed a letter from my counselor to some schools requesting for common application waiver as an international admission applicant but I’m yet to confirm the waiver is given because none of the schools has replied for over three weeks now.
the question is that
- is the absence of reply a confirmation of approval? or
- is there something else i’m expected to do for submission of the common application?</p>
<p>heavyman, please post a separate thread for your issue as it is off-topic in this thread. Start a new thread.</p>
<p>b@r!um: Oh, I forgot about that. I had these lists bookmarked, so I justed pasted them here. I forgot the lists had that! :)</p>
<p>@heavyman, schools are on holidays until January 4th</p>
<p>thanks guys. the links were really helpful’</p>
<p>You should check out some Canadian schools, as most American students can come to Canada and get FSA and scholarships. Plus university in Canada for an American student is under $20,000 at most schools!</p>
<p>Except that no one here is an American student?</p>