<p>I am an intel and will be asking for aid. Arrange the following acc. to hardest to get in. Thanks</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins
Dartmouth
Brown
Princeton
Swarthmore
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia - Fu Foundation</p>
<p>Stingiest colleges from the most stingy to least</p>
<p>JHU
Columbia fu*
Brown*
Dartmouth*
UPenn
Swarthmore
Princeton</p>
<p>This is just based on my opinion from what I have noticed over the years
* not really sure about the order of those 3 schools</p>
<p>depends if you are male or female. if female, the admit rate to fu ED is well over 50%
otherwise,</p>
<p>jhu
dartmouth (lacks intels because it is less positioned in the sciences)
swarthmore
penn
columbia fu
brown
princeton</p>
<p>also, NOFX is a great band</p>
<p>I'm a male.... thanks guys!</p>
<p>i would also like to make clear that I am not asking for "stinginess" (thank you for the list though!).. but easiest to get in .. Princeton is need blind but certainly not that that easy to get in even with aid..</p>
<p>All the schools you mentioned on your list are very very selective. It's almost impossible to tell you which is the easiest to get in. Someone might get rejected from Brown but end up at Princeton and vice-versa.</p>
<p>lol .. yea i realise that... but the thing is that some students are more intel-friendly (esp with aid) than others.. and so one can clearly tell them apart. .. like cornell is harder to get in w/aid then middlebury .. although both are almost equally selective for US students</p>
<p>all of them are very hard to get in with financial aid really... swarthmore might be the easiest considering the fact that most people who apply will be applying for aid anyway...</p>
<p>thanks ... but can anyone tell me what school they would apply for highest chance ED?</p>
<p>It is hard to assess. There are multiple effects going on at the same time.</p>
<p>On the one hand, Princeton is extremely hard to get into for internationals, but they are need-blind. On the other hand, getting in with financial aid to one of the other ivies might be even harder than to get into Princeton - it is almost impossible to tell since most schools whp aren't need-blind publish admission statistics for their international financial aid applicants.</p>
<p>As for which school to apply to ED? Any school that has need-blind admission for internationals. All other are fairly restrictive at admitting international financial aid applicants ED.</p>
<p>firstly, ED admission w/ aid is extremely rare unless u have a super application.
secondly, all the schools that u mentioned its pretty difficult gettin in with aid even r/d. So apply to a few safteies otherwise u will regret later like many intl's do. Don't dream of going to an ivy with aid, try but by no means bank on it.
Some schools which offer good aid are (mostly LAC's) middlebury, and colgate(if u have good sat scores) dont miss out on theses
I speak from personal experience,Last year I had 1530 SAT I (old format) and 780 maths IIC , 790 Phy, 680 Writing and I had applied to all the colleges u mentioned asking for near about 100% aid. Not one of them gave a +ve reply . This yr round I was lucky to get into Colgate with aid. Therefore apply to a few more LAC's.</p>
<p>The thing is that i want to apply to a reach under ED. I do understand the competitive process, but ED is meant for students who are really keen on going to a universities. I have other universities like Texas A&M, Trinity University, WPI on my list... but i'll obviously not apply ED there.... and wont intels asking for aid under ED be easier than RD ?</p>
<p>and i want to do engineering - so very few choices on the LAC part</p>
<p>more often than not u will be deferred to RD, so u might get a slight edge during RD rounds if u are an ED applicant.
how much aid are u asking for? 100% or 50%. which country r u frm?</p>
<p>i am intel and got into Brown with full aid in ED</p>
<p>wow! and do you think you had an edge because you applied under ED? I am from Pakistan and amgonna ask around 75% aid.</p>
<p>anyone else? I also want to know whether I can apply ED to 2 places - like apply ED I to 1 place and if i get reject/deferred, apply ED II to some other place.</p>
<p>WUSTL has the option of EDII. You can apply EA to many schools but ED to only one school.</p>
<p>It says on the USNews site that princeton has an ED admission rate of 32% .. isnt that unbelievabely high for Pton?</p>