<p>please post here if any international students receive email.</p>
<p>Guys(internationals), do you think it’s better to call them, as they were supposed to let us know by the 1st of April. I can’t wait any longer, as my time zone is 7 hours ahead of EDT and so the day is almost over.
A side note, I think I’m probably rejected:(, as most internationals here on forum have already received their emails awhile ago, and so I think that simply didn’t bother emailing me and sent a rejection by postal-mail.</p>
<p>I think that you can try to call them. Nobody is going to reject you because of this.</p>
<p>What about you, Kazkurtoli, are you going to call them today?</p>
<p>Don’t call them yet. It’s only 2:35 on the East Cost. If you don’t receive it today, then them definitely tmrw</p>
<p>IN!!! see yall in the fall!</p>
<p>Hooray! Now you can change your screen name!</p>
<p>I don’t know. I think it’s kind of cute.</p>
<p>What’s your pocket money at college where everything is basically paid?</p>
<p>Luluzg - you will need money for the occasional meal outside of school, sundries such as shampoo and laundry detergent, quarters for the washer & dryer, snacks to cook up in the dorm kitchen, new warm gloves when you lose yours… Also, if you plan to go into NYC you will need money for the train - $28 to $50 round trip. You will need money to buy the new poster for your dorm room, or stamps to send letters home. Most students spend between $100-$200 per month, I think. If you have a work-study job - this is part of the personal expenses that is budgeted for.</p>
<p>So a work-study job will cover my expenses completely or…?</p>
<p>I’m trying to figure it out coz we started making my budget plan and my mom insists that I’d need more than 500 $ while I’m trying to explain her that it’s different than in Europe where only school, withou board and food is paid and thus the living expenses are higher. Sometimes, I have a feeling like I’m talking to a brick-wall and not a highly educated woman in early 40s.</p>
<p>$500 per month or? I think realistically I’d spend like $300ish because I like vending machines and Vitamin Water.</p>
<p>I get $200 a month from my parents for expenses which I think is more than fine, but it really does depend on how often you eat off campus, how quickly you go through Bard Bucks, and how often you use vending machines (although, they’re not that common on campus. The only ones I’ve come across are in the Campus Center and in Cruger Hall/The Breezeway).</p>
<p>Quarters is a whole other story. Most dorms’ washers/driers are different. I know of dorms where it’s $1.50 per wash and dry, but in mine it’s $2.50 per wash and dry. Also, the driers suck so I often have to dry 2 to 3 times. It definitely adds up so plan accordingly.</p>
<p>Who didn’t get a decision ? :(</p>
<p>I haven’t heard from Bard yet! I live in California.</p>
<p>I got mine via email last night. It was pretty cute and personal, but they basically said that although they wanted to admit me, they couldn’t see how I’d pay for it, even with every type of aid they could give me.</p>
<p>@HeartLikeASocket, hey I received exactly the same email, aslo kind of nice, but says they can’t take me if I am not able to cover more of the cost each year. However, I don’t have many choises like you, HeartLikeASocket, 'cause I only applied to 4 colleges, and only one another accepted me(very small liberal arts college(Elmira College) but they gave me like 34k$ out of 50k$ which would mean that considering my mom’s salary here in Ukraine, I would have to sell of our house, everything inside of it, and that would probably cover the remaining cost only for first to year, and then I would need to sell my soul to devil to get the rest of the money:)) and I don’t have offers like you from Welesley with full tuition-board covered, so I am thinking about taking a loan here in Ukraine and sending them an updated fin. aid documents that indicate the higher amount of money my family can contribute.
So any international, whose parents couldn’t afford to cover much of their cost, but they were accepted to Bard, could you tell how much you indicated in your fin. aid documents that you can contribute?</p>
<p>I’m very sorry to hear that rkononenko. I completely understand your situation; my mother makes a lot of money for Bosnian standards, but in an American context, it’s pretty ridiculous, even though she actually works for the American State Department. Paying even $16K per year would be an enormous financial strain for us that would require taking out a massive loan. </p>
<p>If you’re sure that the debt would be worth it, you should contact Bard to try to see how much money they were prepared to give you, and you should honestly inform them that, to cover the remainder, your family will be taking out a loan. </p>
<p>On my forms, I indicated like $1200 per year. </p>
<p>I wish you so much luck, and I really hope you get to attend without selling your soul to the devil :).</p>
<p>@Socket
Yep, my mom thinks they’d have to send at least around 500$ while I’m trying to explain her that I have everything on the campus and everything will be paid and most probably I’ll have a work-study thingy so there is no need for more than 100$ maybe even less.</p>
<p>What happened with the Ivies? </p>
<p>@rkononenko
Contact the financial aid office definitely! But be careful with those loans, it’s enormous amount to be indebted on. </p>
<p>What is ‘Bard Bucks’?</p>
<p>Bassplayer you should definitely email them or call. Good luck!</p>
<p>Oh, the Ivies kindly rejected me. It was pretty funny how their rejection letters are practically identicallll; I got Brown’s first and Yale’s just sounded like Brown’s but paraphrased. But yeah, I wasn’t upset at all. Wesleyan <3. </p>
<p>Hmm, I didn’t know that you could actually profit from a work study. I thought basically every cent you earned went to the college? I mean, as an international (and for me, as a 16 year old minor) you can only work a small number of hours per week legally. And if you get paid like 10$/hr, then you can pretty much cover the work study contribution they expect from you (at least in my case, where my work studies for BMC, Smith, Wellesley, and Wesleyan were the largest possible). </p>
<p>I’m not actually sure about Bard Bucks specifically, but at other schools, like Duke, you get a certain number of credits that come with your meal plan that can be used like money at certain on-campus and even off-campus stores/restaurants. At Duke, they have a really awesome system that didn’t really include a classic dining hall where you just swipe your card to enter, regardless of the amount of food you actually consume when you’re in there. Instead, a lot of chains like Panda Express or McDonald’s are on campus so you just go, order your food, and swipe your card. On this one plan, you get like a daily limit of around $40 (which I like never approached) which expires that day (it doesn’t roll over to the next), but it’s not that much of a waste because you can also use your card at the convenience store. And you can also use it for things like laundry and printing, if you allocate some money to those kinds of expenses in advance (I think… this is what we did at Wes over the summer).</p>