<p>Bangladesh</p>
<p>Sat 1: 2180 (Cr 740, Math 710, Wr 730)
Sat 2: 2330 (Phy 800, Mat 2 800, Che 730)</p>
<p>Toefl: 115</p>
<p>A’ Levels: 3A’s</p>
<p>Going to Berea College (Full Ride, of course).
Waitlisted: Kenyon, Gettysburg, Oberlin, and Colby.</p>
<p>This full ride thing includes grants and loans too? I really am confused between the two? Can anyone volunteer to xplain…</p>
<p>@ Gurung
Yes, full ride involves grants, instituional money given based on financial need that is not needed to be paid back, which cover most of the money. Full ride also, usually, involves a low-interest loan and a requirement to work for a specified hours per week. But some full rides do not need even such obligations. My full ride is loan free, but I will need to work minimum 10 hours per week during the academic year. And that earning will go toward my college costs.</p>
<p>BBO12, i heard that some colleges even provide additional stipends, is it true? I mean what kind of candidates are eligible for it?</p>
<p>What additional stipend do you mean? Well, full ride basically covers all your expenses, including personal costs, costs for books and stationaries, and health insurance, but it does not necessarily include your air ticket to America. However, some colleges, on rare occasions, do provide additional financial aid to cover this expense also. As far as I know, these are provided based on the demonstrated “need” of the student. If you are a very very highly qualified intenational student whose family will find it difficult to pay for the airfare to America, your college might pay it for you. You have to ask individual schools on whether they consider that or not. Some schools specifically state that they do NOT provide cost of transportation to America.</p>
<p>Hey, when we ask colleges for fee-waiver, do they waive the entire fee or just a part of it. I mean how does the system goes? send ur fee-waiver application along with other documents . adcoms wont look at ur APplication until the fee is paid or waived?</p>
<p>They waive the entire fee. Send the waiver before or at the time you submit your application. They will not look your app until the fee is paid or waived. Send the waiver separately from the other materials.</p>
<p>flid, you mean, you need to send the fee-waiver application separately and not along with the application packet… in a different folder</p>
<p>Well, I don’t think it’s actually required to send it in a different envelope, but that’s what I did. In most places you have to send the application to the admission office and the waiver to financial aid office. And I also didn’t want my admission officer or whoever to associate the waiver with my application. If you send them separately, the admission officer will most likely never know how you paid for it. If you send them together, he/she might…which might be negative.</p>
<p>the admission officer will most likely never know how you paid for it. If you send them together, he/she might…which might be negative. Paid for what???</p>
<p>you guys are making this too complicated
the fee waiver is usually signed by a guidance counselor and thus goes along with the things the school sends.
if you are sending the fee waiver yourself. then it doesn’t really matter which envelope you stick it in. just send it with the rest of the stuff.
Flids point, while interesting, is not relevant as the people who make your admission decision don’t open your envelopes. When your application is reviewed its in a file. like everybody elses.</p>
<p>And guys
this was a decisions thread. look what you did</p>
<p>^ lol…tenchar</p>
<p>;P…Come on people! Post your decisions…</p>
<p>hey hey I just wanted to make the thread more active. LOL. Man I never realised this would grow this long.</p>
<p>My school covered my visa application fee as well. :)</p>
<p>plz…someone help me…
i am a science student studying A levels course and this my second year!!
i have no idea upon diff fields…and really in dilemma…
plz help me and give some ideas upon on which field i can continue my undergrat studies…</p>
<p>India</p>
<p>Sat 1: CR 660 W 660 M 750 Sat 2: 2350/2400</p>
<p>Accepted: Northwestern (going :D) ,Berkeley, Cornell (guaranteed transfer), Carnegie, UIUC
Harvey Mudd (waitlist)</p>
<p>I screwed my common app essay but blah :/</p>
<p>Oh and I didn’t apply for any aid</p>