<p>I'm a Canadian citizen applying for ivy league schools. For need based financial aid, is the form FAFSA for only USA federal students? Any form for Canadian students?</p>
<p>anybody can help?</p>
<p>Check the websites. As a Canadian you are not eligible for Fafsa ( which are the American equivalent of Canada Student Loans) loans and hence you do not fill out the Fafsa form. </p>
<p>What you do is to fill out the College Board CSS Profile with the Canadian dollar figures converted to American dollars. This is not hard to do. Around March you send your completed income tax forms to the financial aid office for verification. </p>
<p>Each Ivy has a slightly different system. Yale uses the CSS, Harvard and Princeton use their own application form which you can find on their websites. Everybody else uses the CSS with a supplement.</p>
<p>Again, check the sites and get your forms in on time. Good luck</p>
<p>thank you very much</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>For need based aid, is there any grants for Cornell, Penn, Columbia & Harvard for a Canadian? </p>
<p>Is needed base aid consists of grants and loans. The grants are money we don't need to repay, right?</p>
<p>Instead of FAFSA for Amercian, CSS is for Canadian citizens applying for loans but not for grants.</p>
<p>Then how about grants (that what I looking for), any forms do I need to fill out for the above schools?</p>
<p>The above is to what I understand from the posts on this thread, please correct me if there is anything I misunderstand?</p>
<p>Again what forms I should fill out for grants from Cornell & Columbia & what are their deadlines?</p>
<p>For Columbia the deadline is 1 February i.e tomorrow. For student aid purposes at Columbia Canadians and Americans are treated alike with the exception that the Fafsa loan component is replaced with a Canada student loan. What this means is that it will cost you approximately the same to go to columbia as it would cost you to go to Queen's. All aid except for some very low income students is a combination of loans, grants and work. You go to the admission site of the university you are interested in, go to financial aid section and fill out the form. </p>
<p>For columbia the forms can be found at: <a href="http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/finaid/how_to_apply/canadian.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/finaid/how_to_apply/canadian.php</a></p>
<p>For Harvard the Financial Aid application deadline is March 1. </p>
<p>Since you seem a bit unfamiliar with the process: loans you repay, grants you do not repay. Some universities will ask you to work about 10 hrs a week during term in the library and every single one will expect you to have some summer earnings. Your parents are expected to contribute along a sliding scale. Depending on family composition the family is expected to contribute if the total income is greater than $40,000. Some universities i.e., princeton and yale, Harvard will provide all grants i.e., they will calculate the expected family contribution on some formula and essentially give grants for the rest. Others Columbia, Penn and Cornell have less grant money and will require you to borrow from Canada Student Loans. </p>
<p>I would not worry too much about the financial aid piece at this time. Our experience has been that the family contribution is about the same or less than it would be in Canada. The loan component varies by university but is a relatively small component of overall aidThere is a genuine commitment at all Ivy's to enable you to go if you can get in.</p>
<p>You can't get in if you don't apply. So fill in the forms and hope for the best.</p>