Most of the information pertaining to financial aid for international transfer students are about those who started their undergraduate study in their own country. What about an international student already studying in a US university who wants to transfer to another institute? Do they have better chances of obtaining financial aid?
It’s harder to transfer.
I am asking if I will have better chances as an international student already with a student visa who wants to transfer to another institution within the US. Not from my local instituiton but from another institution in the US?
No. If you can transfer to a need blind college that gives FA to international students then you will have the same chance to get FA. But it’s harder to transfer to a selective college than to apply as a freshman. In order to transfer you have to be superstellar and the transfer acceptance rate is very low.
No. There are very few who will give financial aid to international student who are transfers even in that situation. Even colleges that are need blind do not matter. It is a matter of aid available to transfers at all, then international transfers. It will be hard to find. If you were some kind of math prodigy or something…
The fact that you’re transferring from a US univ makes NO DIFFERENCE. Why would it?? The FA office doesn’t care where you’re transferring from. That has no effect on whether or not you’d get aid.
Even the “need blind” “full need” schools that are such for incoming frosh, may not be for int’l transfers. Few schools give much/any aid to int’l transfers.
It doesn’t matter that you are already in a U.S. university. When you go to transfer, the policies for international transfer students will apply to you.
Why do you want to transfer? What are the financial and academic concerns with your current school?
Should you consider transferring back to your home country?